Hi,Dale! As far as I remember,this modified tool was introduced to our group by late Francis Mahaffey...Jim Harvey gave a few demonstrations in his classes,as well....It works great on Bridge pins,never occured to me to use it on Hitch Pins......isaac On Jul 12, 2008, at 6:28 PM, erwinspiano at aol.com wrote: > > Hi Dave > I have a tool which resembles a body hammer. It's a Large vice > grip with a long bolt substituted for the original threaded piece in > that tool. It has a piece of round stock with a hole in it that > slide & impacts against the bolt head. We use it to pull bridge > pins. SO cool. It's a Carl Meyers tool/invention. It saves my life/ > hands when the occasion arises to pull bridge pins that were epoxied > in place. > I should think this would work very well. Need a picture? > Dale Erwin > > > Hello Everyone, > > I wish to upgrade the quality of my restorations by installing new > hitch pins (frankly strictly for cosmetic reasons). Perhaps some of > you are doing this already. More power to you. > My first question of one of removal of the original pins. Getting > the ones out that serve the long bridge from the backside of the > plate via a drift punch and hammer seems straightforward enough. The > problem arises on Steinway (and other) plates, however, where the > hitch pins for the bass section do not protrude through the casting. > These can not be driven out from the back. How can they be easily/ > successfully removed? > > David G. Hughes, RPT > Baltimore Chapter > > The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. Get the TMZ > Toolbar Now! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080712/ea1bf7aa/attachment.html
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