How about a punch, and line the lead up with a hole drilled in a piece of wood. then just punch it out. If you can't visualize this, reply and I will elaborate. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Magness" <IFixPianos at yahoo.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:58 PM Subject: Re: Key lead removal tool? > On Nov 17, 2007 4:12 PM, <piannaman at aol.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been working on a Bergman (Young Chang built) upright for a couple >> of >> years. Over that time, I've removed unnecessary friction, but am not >> facing >> the inevitable: reweighting the keys. >> >> I have not checked downweight/upweight with gram weights, but I can tell >> the >> way the keys are failing that more touchweight--probably via lead >> removal--is needed. In this case, less is more. >> >> I have never removed weights from keys, and I don't know what tools are >> available for this operation. Suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dave Stahl >> ________________________________ >> Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! >> > > Renner makes a keylead removal tool, kinda pricey but works real nice, > I don't own it myself, saw one of my fellow chapter members using > his. > > Mike > -- > Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking > both directions anyway. > Michael Magness > Magness Piano Service > 608-786-4404 > www.IFixPianos.com > email mike at ifixpianos.com >
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