---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment That's a good point. And while you're doing it use a small screw driver instead of a punch and sometimes the screw driver will make a little slot in the agraffe stub and it will turn right out. I've found that this will work many times. BudAt 12:08 PM 11/20/00 -0700, you wrote: >At 05:44 PM 11/18/2000 -0600, Ray wrote: > >>I have spent the past couple of hours working on a Steinway L from 1927 >>with a broken agraffe. It broke sometime while the family was on >>vacation. I have replaced a few of these in the past without >>incident. The problem: >> >>The remainder would not come out! It seemed to be fused to the plate. I >>tried > >I used to own a Honda S-600 back in the late 1960s and it had a brass oil >drain plug that threaded into the oil pan. The drain plug would act just >as if it were fused to the pan and you could actually strip it with a >wrench if you were careless trying to get it out. A single light tap with >hammer would free it so you could practically take it out without a wrench. > >I haven't had the opportunity to try this, but if you run across this >again try giving the stump of the agraffe a light tap with a punch and a >hammer before you try anything else as it might indeed be "fused" to the >plate in some manner. If anyone tries this, let us know if it works. > > John > >John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada >http://www.musselwhite.com http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary >email: john@musselwhite.com http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom > Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, california ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6b/31/16/77/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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