Extracting glued bridge pins

[gordon stelter]

Try heating one with a  soldering iron to see if it
will soften the epoxy enough, but without damaging the
wood. Soak with acetone? ( WEAR MASK! )
     Thump



--- Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:

>  
> David
>     The difficulty you are having is why I don't
> really like  epoxy repair 
> for this. Yes, I do it on occasion. However I'll
> have to try  Horace's 
> suggestion next time I'm doing an entire bridge. The
> last time it took  forever to get 
> em out.
>     Dale
>  
> 
> 
> Any  suggestions for cleanly removing bridge pins
> that have been glued with  
> either CA or epoxy, without damaging the bridge? 
> I'm trying to clean  up 
> the notching in the upper treble of a Steinway L.  I
> can't  remember if heat 
> (soldering iron, for example) would affect either
> glue,  or create 
> additional problems.
> 
> Thanks -
> 
> David  Skolnik
> 
> 
>  
> 



		
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