<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:32 AM, David Nereson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">there are still not available acceptable tools for certain aspects of regulation, namely a dependable, durable, fine-bladed screwdriver with a sleeve encasing the blade so it won't slip off the screw. </span></blockquote></div><br><div>One of the first things I was taught about piano technology was that supply house tools do not come ready to use. Expect to finish them. With this attitude, many of the tools that some find exasperating, I find, after some modification, to be fine tools. I love the Pianotek double-ended drop screw regulator. Some time at a PTG chapter meeting with a jeweler's file left me with the pictured tool. It works beautifully!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>You can spend some minutes modifying a tool, or you can spend the rest or your career modifying every drop screw you meet. That's not much of a choice, if you ask me.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Kent</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><img height="698" width="836" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:000670BA-AA72-4343-801F-FAE6BF4A8BE1@kc.rr.com"></div></body></html>