At 2:44 PM -0600 2/28/04, Kent Swafford wrote: >Any ideas? I once had to extract the action from a Stwy B with a sagged block. As with your piano, the drop screws wanted to dig ditches in the block on their way out. What I did was to make a "crowbar out of my tuning hammer and screwdriver brace bit, and pry upwards between the hammer rail and the underside of the block. Obviously the downward pressure of this crowbar on the action farme produced its own intense friction between the keyframe and bed, but it least this was and obstacle i could overcome, not like having 30+ drops screws claw their way across the underside of the block. One hand on the crowbar, my foot pumping the UC pedal, and my other hand on a T-shaped stringing hook which was pulling on a front pin. After that, I went at the underside of the block with a chisel, and erased the score marks left by the drop screws. Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. "May you work on interesting pianos." ...........Ancient Chinese Proverb +++++++++++++++++++++
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