Kent, I'm familiar with extracting hammers. If the glue joint is decent, you still have to deal with breaking the bond don't you? They won't just pop off w/out breaking the collar, heat, or wallpaper solution, etc., will they? Remember, I wanted to reinforce those that were NOT clicking at that time. Time spent on putting drops on the front and back of each hammer took about 4 SECONDS. Can you remove a hammer and reglue it that fast? Must be that Kansas wheat! Lance Lafargue, RPT New Orleans Chapter Covington, LA. lafargue@iamerica.net ---------- > From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net> > To: pianotech list <pianotech@ptg.org> > Subject: Re: Superglue on grand hammers > Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 6:39 AM > > Lance Lafargue wrote: > > >QUESTION: Did the super glue do any good? Is there a problem with doing > >this?? Is there a better proven way to stop clicking like this w/out taking > >the hammers completely off? > > Pliers-type hammer head extractors are available for both grands and > verticals; these extractors make removing the hammer heads so quick and > painless that, for me, little or no time would be saved by using CA glue. > > Kent Swafford
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