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At 12:59 AM 12/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>Guy, <br><br>
This tool sounds like what I need. Couldn't budge the keypins to
space the keys. Do you have a picture you could send along?
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Thanks, <br><br>
Dave Stahl</font><font face="arial"> </blockquote><br>
Dave,<br>
Picture magic is out-of-sorts for the moment. Perhaps
next week or after the holidays. Meanwhile, the 90° bend is a great idea,
(thanks Ron and others) and doesn't add weight. If you want to fabricate
the "shop" model, plan on brazing or welding two shanks
together at 90°, of heavy 3/8"-1/2" stock. Cut your notch and
taper the end a bit, rounding edges after all the grinding. I like the
notch at about 20° off the horizontal plane of the handle, to the left.
So.... with the notch on the pin, the handle is just clockwise of being
horizontal. Nice balance for "impact" bending. The notch has a
fair amount of slop, (lets see.... is that a metric "fair
amount" or an imperial "fair amount?) and allows for a pretty
good bouncy-kinda-tapping-sorta well-balanced rocking impact to the pin.
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Maybe I'd better get the camera (software) working..... sorry. I'll take
accurate measurements, also. AND.... (big "AND") I need
to point out that I didn't invent this tool. I first saw it in the
Pratt-Win plant in Juarez. Petite women bending 40 thousand pins a
day. Shoulda seen the ladies driving bridge pins!<br><br>
Later,<br>
Guy<br><br>
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