Ed, I agree that replacing is cheaper and will give better results. However if you are determined to replace the shanks just cut them off flush with the butt. Create a jig to hold the butts. The jig and butt then are clamped in a drill press vise. Drill them out. Once you have created your jig, this is faster than fiddling with pulling out the old shanks. Alan --Alan McCoy, RPT Inland Northwest Chapter Spokane, WA ahm at webband.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of ed miller Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:43 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: removing shanks from butts List, I am about to rebuild a set of hammer butts, and put in new shanks and hammers. However, I can't get these pesky shanks out of the butts. I have done everything I've learned..... breaking away the collar, soaking the shank/butt joint with wallpaper remover, even applying some steam to help loosen the glue (it is hot hide glue). I've only tried it on shanks that have hammers already broken off. So I've been using a shank clamp as the end point for the shank/butt remover to push against. The clamp keeps sliding up the shank before the shank/butt joint will break loose (and I've tightened it really hard, to the point where the shank is pretty smooshed). Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Ed _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spa ces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us
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