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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Diane, please read my post on making a punch to use with
the palm nailer. You will never leave a mark on the tuning pin and you can
see the depth of tuning pin while hammering.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al Guecia</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=dianepianotuner@msn.com href="mailto:dianepianotuner@msn.com">Diane
Hofstetter</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Palm Nailers (again)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR><BR>>Palm Nailers (again)<BR>>Delwin D Fandrich
fandrich at pianobuilders.com|<BR><BR><BR><BR>>I have a shelf full of jigs
and fixtures I've made over the years. Many of them<BR>>I have no idea what
I made them to do.<BR><BR>>Del<BR><BR><BR>Embarrased to say I have several
boxes of my jigs, lovingly packed for the move to Portland, still in their
boxes four years later... Maybe some convention some day should include an
exhibit room dedicated to all our home made jigs (used and
unused).<BR><BR>However, I recently restrung a Chickering grand for a friend.
He had bought some German tuning pins with a real pretty blued coating.
Unfortunately, my impact hammer tip did nick them some, so I had to restring
the whole piano with a two=pound sledge again. First time in
YEARS. It was pure torture! And took MUCH longer.<BR><BR>Diane
Hofstetter<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>