Key lead removal tool?

[John Ross]

How about a punch, and line the lead up with a hole drilled in a piece of 
wood. then just punch it out.
If you can't visualize this, reply and I will elaborate.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Magness" <IFixPianos at yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Key lead removal tool?


> On Nov 17, 2007 4:12 PM,  <piannaman at aol.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been working on a Bergman (Young Chang built) upright for a couple 
>> of
>> years.  Over that time, I've removed unnecessary friction, but am not 
>> facing
>> the inevitable:  reweighting the keys.
>>
>> I have not checked downweight/upweight with gram weights, but I can tell 
>> the
>> way the keys are failing that more touchweight--probably via lead
>> removal--is needed.  In this case, less is more.
>>
>> I have never removed weights from keys, and I don't know what tools are
>> available for this operation.  Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave Stahl
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>
> Renner makes a keylead removal tool, kinda pricey but works real nice,
> I don't own it myself, saw one of  my fellow chapter members using
> his.
>
> Mike
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