Broken tuning pin removal

[Dick Beaton]

Ted..
What a lousy situation!  Try heating the pin with a small torch. You will
likely have to put in a shim or oversize pin...good luck
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Dick RPT MT
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Simmons <ted@brevard.net>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 8:10 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?
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>Ted Simmons
>Merritt Island, FL
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