Hi,
I suspect others will be interested in what you learn from Danair.
If I remember correctly, RonN wrote something several years back about
using a palm nailer from Harbor Freight. While the one that they
currently have listed from Central Pneumatic seems to be getting mostly
positive reviews, I've had fairly mixed results on various products from
Harbor Freight, so generally plan on replacing whatever I buy there
fairly soon.
A brief talk with Dr. Google shows what look to be competent units from
both Senco (PC1195) and Hitachi (NH90AB) for $49.00 each. I have power
tools from both Senco and Hitachi (purchased mostly through W.W.
Grainger), and have been very pleased with them for some years now.
In terms of the piano tip, I find myself wondering if, should enough
technicians would be interested (and, of course, the tip would be
sufficiently universal), Danair would be willing to make a custom run of
them. Or, even, perhaps, a run of their RN-16 palm nailer. It can't
hurt to ask.
On the other hand, sometimes it's a good deal of fun to simply whack
about with a 6# sledge on a short hammer, too. My Bride tells me that
I'm much more pleasant to be around after such a session....
Kind regards.
Horace
On 2/8/2018 7:19 PM, Jim Ialeggio via Piano Technicians Guild wrote:
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> Del...going to call Danair tomorrow...but am not hopeful on the continued existence of the "piano tip". Any chance on a pic of the piano tip?
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> Original Message:
> Sent: 02-08-2018 21:44
> From: Delwin Fandrich
> Subject: Inserting Tuning pins with Pneumatic Palm Nailers
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> I don't know about Bosch (or any other) palm nailers. I've been using my "Aerosmith" (now Danair) nailer for close to 50 years. I've sent it back to the factory twice to be rebuilt. It's still running.
> When I bought it they had a "piano" tip set available. This was the setup used by Baldwin, Aeolian, Kimball, and whoever else was building pianos in the 1970s.
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> I'm curious how other folks use pneumatic palm nailers for driving tuning pins.
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> Specifically...I have a Bostich palm nailer. The "nose" is too deep, so that pin inserts into the nose past the becket hole. Because of this excessive nose depth, I made a soft steel slug that inserts into the nose. The nose is drilled and shaped so the pin inserts into the slug's hole during driving. This good and bad...
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> good...the soft steel interface slamming on the pin, usually does not ding blued pins.
> bad...the slug gets out of control every once and a while and nails the plate finish...really pisses me off when this happens...usually once or twice per block.
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> I would grind down the nose, so I could eliminate the soft iron slug, but the hardened palm nailer ram deforms the pin tops much more than the soft steel. How have others out there set up their palm nailers?
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> Shirley, MA
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Del...going to call Danair tomorrow...but am not hopeful on the continued existence of the "piano tip". Any chance on a pic of the piano tip?
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Jim Ialeggio
grandpianosolutions.com
Shirley, MA
978 425-9026
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