Agraffe Trouble

[Farrell]

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If it is possible to break an agraffe, I figure I will do that someday. =
Your idea sounds interesting. Could you please explain the "fish tail" =
tip?

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
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  From: Jon Page=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 4:38 PM
  Subject: Re: Agraffe Trouble


  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,=20

    I have a piano in my shop about ready to be restrung.  The plate is =
out of=20
    the piano and I'm replacing the agraffes.  Two original agraffes =
broke in the=20
    process of removal, likely due to something that had been spilled =
onto the=20
    plate and froze them in place  a few years back. =20

    Drilling down the center with a 1/8' bit, and turning with an EZ out =
worked=20
    on one.   I tried drilling out the rest of the other agraffe with=20
    progressively larger bits, stopping short of 7/32".  I hoped that =
the bit=20
    would follow the brass, and not bugger up the iron plate. =20

    Opps!!  Stripped the threads in the plate.

    So now I need to plug and tap the hole.  Any hints?  Not having done =
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    before, I'm wondering if it is a fairly straight forward procedure, =
or is=20
    there someone I should have do this for me. =20

    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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