Agraffe Trouble

[Jon Page]

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Somewhere in the archives is a procedure I in which I used MarineTex
to reconstruct the threads. I think the thread was: "Snatching victory from 
the jaws of defeat"

But there is a lot of reading in there on the subject anyways,

The best agraffe remover is a 'fish tail' tip ground into a small screw driver.

Best of Luck,

Jon Page

At 03:41 PM 09/24/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>List,
>
>I have a piano in my shop about ready to be restrung.  The plate is out of
>the piano and I'm replacing the agraffes.  Two original agraffes broke in the
>process of removal, likely due to something that had been spilled onto the
>plate and froze them in place  a few years back.
>
>Drilling down the center with a 1/8' bit, and turning with an EZ out worked
>on one.   I tried drilling out the rest of the other agraffe with
>progressively larger bits, stopping short of 7/32".  I hoped that the bit
>would follow the brass, and not bugger up the iron plate.
>
>Opps!!  Stripped the threads in the plate.
>
>So now I need to plug and tap the hole.  Any hints?  Not having done this
>before, I'm wondering if it is a fairly straight forward procedure, or is
>there someone I should have do this for me.
>
>They say if you aren't making mistakes, you aren't learning, right!?
>
>Guess I'm learning.
>
>Humbly,
>
>Gordon Large, RPT
>Mt. Vernon, ME

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