<div>I have successfully interchanged Hale and Watanabe tips, but YMMV.</div> <div> </div> <div>The following may be "inefficient", but if I need different head/tip configurations, I have a different tuning lever for each configuaration; perhaps because of this practice of only rarely switching heads/tips, I have stripped the threads of only one tuning lever in the last 25 years; one was enough.</div> <div> </div> <div>Kent Swafford<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Farrell <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial">I've managed to strip the threads of both my tuning levers this past week. I have a bunch of Hale and Watanabe tips. Are the female threads of the Hale tips different size from the Watanabe? It sure appears that way.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">I've got all these tuning tip parts and nothing seems to screw properly to one another...... :-(</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Terry Farrell<br>Farrell Piano</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.farrellpiano.com/" target="_blank">www.farrellpiano.com</a><br><a href="mailto:terry@farrellpiano.com" target="_blank">terry@farrellpiano.com</a></font></div></div></blockquote> </div><br>