Try Transverse End wire cutters, available from Jansen Tools. They're like needle-nose pliers but the end is the business end. You can nip and gnaw every which way, but because the cutting edge does not go across the centerpin, the chances of nipping through it are very low. There's a diagram in a PTJournal a few years back -- if you have the Journal CD, look up the article called "Breaking Elbows Made Easy." Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <tune4u@earthlink.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:25 PM Subject: Elbowrama : : Now a little tip for the nastiest part of the job, i.e., removing the last : bits of the old elbows from the whippen center pin: Get some of those long : skinny needle-nose pliers that electronics stores carry (Radio Shack). They : fit better between the sides of whippen and it's fairly easy to nibble the : junk away. If anyone has a better system, I'm all cyberears ... : : Now about turning those wooden dowels to adjust "capstan" height ... arghhh. : : Alan Barnard : Salem, MO : : _______________________________________________ : pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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