More on Agraffe repairs

[Jon Page]

It would be so much easier if a slot were cut in the bottom of the post so a 
screw driver could simply turn it back out from underneath.

But that would make things too convenient.

Jon Page



At 10:48 AM 09/10/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Sometimes I can't believe my eyes with the things that come up on this
wonder 
>list.
>
>On 9/7, I too, found myself wrestling with a S&S 1920's vintage broken 
>agraffe. (There are two and I was attempting to remove the 1st, the lowest 
>"B" on the piano.)
>
>That sucker is frozen like the others mentioned in earlier posts, and so is 
>the "G" in the second octave from what I can tell so far (the one not fooled 
>with yet).
>
>After getting the easy-out hole off center (such a joyful easy thing to 
>accomplish) which may have cause some bunged-up thread problems down stream, 
>I decided to seek further advice (beyond what had been given to me earlier) 
>from my fellow techs.
>
>Current plans are to grind down the old ragged posts with a small dremel 
>grinding bit and to retry the easy out method again along with Liquid Wrench.
>
>If that doesn't work, then to proceed on to drilling a new hole, tapping in 
>new threads, and then screwing in the new agraffe.
>
>This is my first time on the list although I've been reading almost 
>everything since I bought my computer about a year ago specifically for this 
>purpose.
>
>Another tech who has lots of credentials and know-how advised that he
hired a 
>machinist at one point to remove the danged agraffe and then to retap, which 
>I'm sure cost an arm and a leg.
>
>Any further thoughts on this last, yet to be attempted retapping procedure?  
>You will have my most appreciative thanks!
>
>Don Bee, RPT
>Chicago
>DBee840388@aol.com 
>  
Jon Page,  Harwich Port,  Cape Cod,  Mass.  mailto:jpage@capecod.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~