John (Parham)... Having strung maybe a dozen single-loop only pianos over the years, your method is exactly what I have done forever. As you say, simple tooling... Paul In a message dated 1/1/2011 5:34:45 P.M. Central Standard Time, johnparham at piano88.com writes: The easiest way for me to make a hitch loop is to use round-nose pliers, make a 3/4 loop with a long tail, then hole the loop with your pliers while you push the tail around the wire to make the coils. No special tools are required. -John Parham > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Making a hitch pin loop > From: Jon Page <jonpage at pianocapecod.com> > Date: Sun, December 26, 2010 4:37 pm > To: pianotech at ptg.org > > > >Then just bend the wire around the nail, then take the free end, and > >wrap it around the wire. > > > It's a little more involved than that. The two wires need to be > twisted together or bent around each other. > There is a smaller version which has one wire wrapped around the > other but it is for a shorter segment. > > -- > > Regards, > > Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110102/019ee2f4/attachment.htm>
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