Broken tuning pin removal

[John Dewey]

As a last last last resort!!!! Take out the nearby tunnig pins, take the
piano to a welder and have him arc weld a nut to the stub, turn the pin out
with a wrench. You may have to put in a "geers plug" if the heat from the
welding does too much damage to the hole. You can protect the sorunding area
from welding splatters by covering it with aluminum flasfing.

John Dewey
jdent@soltec.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Simmons <ted@brevard.net>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 9:11 AM
Subject: Broken tuning pin removal


>While tuning a spinet last week a tuning pin broke at the becket hole
>leaving most of the pin exposed.  I thought it would be a simple task to
>turn the pin out of the hole and hammer in a new one, but such was not the
>case.  The tuning pins on this piano are super tight and I couldn't budge
>the broken pin with vise grips.  So I sawed the becket deeper and tried a
>big screwdriver with no success.  Can anyone suggest a tool or a method
>that will get this tuning pin out?
>
>Ted Simmons
>Merritt Island, FL
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