[CAUT] Bridge pin removal

[Fred Sturm]

Following up, my homemade vice grip slide hammer worked like a champ.  
It planed off a good bit of the sides of the first bridge pin I tried  
it on, showing me that I was dealing with epoxied pins, as I had  
suspected. I ended up needing a good bit of heat (45 seconds with a  
25 watt iron, getting the tops of three pins hot enough to boil  
water), then a whack downward with my brass slide hammer (from  
pianoforte supply) to break the glue joint, then they would yank out  
with the vice grip slide hammer.
	End result: quite nice. Not perfect, but an enormous improvement.  
Terminations are important <G>. The capo was pretty nasty as well. It  
had been sharpened a la McMorrow, and had pretty deep grooves.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu



On Dec 15, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Fred Sturm wrote:

> Here's what I came up with last night, rummaging through the shop  
> for available stuff. I found a 6" machine screw that had threads to  
> match a vice grip. I'll probably use the larger socket as the  
> hammer (more mass), but used the smaller one for the picture to  
> show it in place with a washer to match the hole in the socket with  
> the size of the screw head. BTW, Jurgen (fortepiano) has a nice  
> brass slide hammer for installing or tapping bridge pins.

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