Thank you Ed. I will try this also with my palm nailer. good tip about the rubber pad! Dave Smith SW FL From: Ed Foote Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 2:47 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning pin pushing up tool for grand David asks: >>Someone, probably Ron Nossaman, once posted a picture of a homemade tool for pushing tuning pins up a little in the pinblock of a grand piano. I cant find it, and have just gotten a\n old Story &Clark grand with a few tuning pins with coils almost to the bushings. pins are tight, strings not to be replaced, so am looking for the quick fix tool. I once had to raise the pins in a grand. I found that with just the right length of tuning pin, I could get to them from underneath with a palm nailer. After flattening my hand once or twice, I managed to get a rubber pad under it and could get, with control, one or two impacts on the bottom of the pins. They walked up nicely. Regards, Ed Foote RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110212/5b9a121e/attachment.htm>
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