<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I use the coupler,also, and it works very well.When i was young and dumb,BC-{before the coupler},I had about a dozen of Hammer shanks pre-cut in different lenght from 1.5"" in 1/8" increments.Hammer shanks are easy to slip under the lever and it gives very accurate  reading...When  appropriate lenght of shank is found-then it is very easy to cut the dowel and do the rest.......<div>Regarding drilling-enlarging the pitman hole-I use UNIBIT  Drill to enlarge the hole to 1" in dia...I will have this pitman retrofit kit in my class,if interested to see it-just stop by      Isaac Sadigursky.....<br><div><div>On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Jude Reveley/Absolute Piano 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: Helvetica; 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; "><div class="hmmessage" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div><font face="Arial">Variation on a theme...</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">My pitman gage is a coupler nut threaded onto a dowel with the punchings glued on each end. I'll see if I can snap a picture. You want to be able to easily adjust it under the damper tray without the lower portion spinning along.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div>Jude Reveley, RPT<br>Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC<br>Lowell, Massachusetts<br>(978) 323-4545</div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>