Broken Agraffe....

William Monroe pianotech at a440piano.net
Sun Oct 12 13:17:59 MDT 2008


Thanks Ed, Fenton, David for the responses.  I had thought of the fishtail 
screwdriver, but not diamond burrs or coming from underneath.  I'll have to 
suggest those as well.

William R. Monroe



> Get yourself some diamond burrs and go to work with a Dremell or similar 
> devise. Penetrating fluid can help.
> Some off the agraffes can be accessed from the bottom. Left handed drill 
> bits will help when you get a machined hole to start the bit in.
> Just some ideas.
> Fenton
>
>> OK,
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>> How about removing a broken agraffe, with a broken spiral extractor 
>> broken off in that??  Nothing sticking up above the hole.  Any ideas?? 
>> It's, uh, this friend of mine..........  Really, I swear.
>>
>> William R. Monroe
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