tight pins

[Ron Nossaman]

> I tuned a K &c today with impossibly tight pins... Fortunately none broke,
> but what do you do to get some of the tightness out without wrecking pin
> block. Lots of snapping, too.   Do I just jerk them back and forth several
> times?  Concerns me just a bit.
> thanks
> les bartlett

Other than Vince Mrykalo having Protek'd an abusively tight 
block in desperation a few years back, I don't know of a fix. 
Too often, there just isn't an established manual override to 
a manufacturer's feature, short of tearing it down and 
replacing it with something that works.
Ron N