Remove, clean with a wire wheel to brighten the brass, insert flat head nails into holes, spray plate, reinstall agraffes. Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:18 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] finishing plates Sounds like the best system to me. Heat shrink is on my shopping list also. Now tell me how to deal with the agraffes when they are not being replaced. Al - High Point, NC From: William <mailto:bill at a440piano.net> Monroe Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 4:47 PM To: joegarrett at earthlink.net ; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] finishing plates I'm telling you guys, heat shrink tubing. clip it off, heat it, and it's tight at the bottom of the pin with a wall thickness of maybe 1 or 2 mils. No shadow. Plus, cut them a little long, and just grab the tip when you're done and they come of clean and easy. Really! William R. Monroe On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net> wrote: Ron asked: "Something else. What do you folks do about hitch pins? Do you have birthdays while you mask and un-mask each one, or just spray over them and blow off the chips after stringing?" Ron, As I said before, pieces of player tubing w/just the very tip exposed. Spray, (from ALL angles to avoid the "shadow") and remove. String and, yes, blow the chips off. Then...touchup with a small artist's brush. Definately does not require any "birthdays"!! Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100301/cbfa36e7/attachment.htm>
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