There's quite a bit about this in recent (past couple years) archives. The Metrovac, I think it is (available on Amazon, as well as other places) is a popular favorite. Personally, I use a little, very compact Shark (not sure of the model.) It's great for small jobs (lots of suction), but it doesn't have sufficient capacity for much dust/dirt/turds. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote: > Speaking of vacuums, I am curious as to what type of vacuum everyone uses. > I have a 6 gal. shop vac that I bought at Home Depot, but it is not very > space saving, even though it is one of the smallest. So, I do not keep it > in my vehicle. When a customer requests a cleaning over the phone, I make > sure I put the shop vac in my vehicle. However, I would like to find a vac > that isn't bulky that I can keep inside my car, without taking up too much > space. > > ***TODD PIANO WORKS* > Matthew Todd, Piano Technician > (979) 248-9578 > http://www.toddpianoworks.com > > > --- On *Thu, 3/11/10, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>* wrote: > > > From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Premium service > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:09 AM > > A vacuum and a dry paint brush cleans the pin area in a couple of > minutes. An understring sweeper in a few more. That’s what I was talking > about. If you have to pull the action and clean the action cavity what does > that take, 3-4 more minutes. I suppose if you take a toothbrush to > everything I could probably take three hours but it’s not necessary to get > the dust out. I don’t think I’ve ever polished a set of pedals as part of a > cleaning job. You have to draw the line somewhere. I usually walk to the > car, not crawl. > > > > All this reminds me of my visit to the Charles Walter factory a couple of > years ago and how we all talk about how much time things take. When I was > there I saw this woman pin a bridge in about 15 minutes. She picked up > three pins at a time, set them right into the holes, bang, bang, bang with a > hammer and they were perfect. She probably got paid 20% of what I charge > per hour and did the job in about 20% of the time. I won’t even tell you > about the stringer who could string an entire piano in about 90 minutes. > The message I took with me, quit complaining and pick up the pace. > > > > David Love > > www.davidlovepianos.com > > > > *From:* pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] *On > Behalf Of *John Formsma > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:30 PM > *To:* pianotech at ptg.org > *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Premium service > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net<http://us.mc838.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=davidlovepianos@comcast.net>> > wrote: > > > > Honestly,I'm shocked that people are talking about spending 30 - 40 minutes > or more > cleaning. It takes about 5. > > > > Maybe you should define "cleaning." I guarantee you that you can't dust > and clean the SB underneath all the strings, bridges, hitch pins and > understring felt there, tuning pin area, action cavity, action, and polish > all three pedals in 5 minutes. It takes about 5 minutes to walk out to the > car to get the vacuum cleaner and find a nearby plug. So whatchoo talkin' > 'bout, Willis? :-) > > > -- > JF > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100311/8397ebbd/attachment-0001.htm>
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