broken tuning pin

[Mike Spalding]

Noah:
You've got 2 choices:
1:  If a grand, drive the pin out through the bottom of the pinblock.  
Support the pinblock so it doesn't split apart, and use a 1/4" hardened 
steel drift (punch).
2.  Broken tuning pin removal tool, available from Pianotek.  One end is 
a female tapered left-hand thread, which will lock onto the end of the 
tuning pin as you turn it counter-clockwise.  The other end looks just 
like the end of a tuning pin, so you can use your tuning hammer to turn 
it.  Also available from Schaff a lower price, guaranteed to twist in 
two the first time you use it. DAMHIK.

Mike

Noah Haverkamp wrote:
> it broke with a slightly jagged edge about 3/8 inch out from the 
> plate. i tried tuning this piano a few weeks ago and basically refused 
> because the pins were so tight (bad repinning job) that i was afraid 
> of breaking my hammer, as well as reinjuring my never-to-heal broken 
> collar-bone (which does surprisingly well considering the tuning 
> stress: sometimes i think the tuning helps it, like, gives it some 
> healthy exercise maybe). somebody managed to tune it, but i wasn't 
> surprised to discover a pin broke in the process.
>
> small vise-grip pliers could not grip it sufficiently. how the heck am 
> i supposed to remove this thing?
>
>
> Noah Haverkamp
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