[pianotech] Fwd:

[johnparham at piano88.com]

Wim,

What choices have you figured out so far?

-John Parham

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> Subject: [pianotech] Fwd:
> From: tnrwim at aol.com
> Date: Thu, September 29, 2011 9:25 pm
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> I'm taking the strings off a Steinway upright. One of the screws on the pressure bar is frozen. Before I realized this, I used a smaller screw driver, and because the screw is made of a soft metal, the edges ripped off. I now have a larger screwdriver tip that fits the slot, but because the slot of the screw is worn off, (see picture),  the blade keeps slipping of the edge.
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> What do I do, short of drilling out the screw, which would mean buying a new one? 
> 
> Wim