Steven - The bit will follow the hole. It's just a quick in and out, removing very little new wood. Start the hole at the approximate angle of the rest of the pins (slanted back towards you in a grand, or up towards the top of the piano in an upright. I always have 2 drills by my side, one high torque to slowly back out the old pin, and another with a size 3 bit to ream the hole. An upright, by the way, is a whole lot easier to repin (or repin and restring) if you put it on a piano truck, or tilter, and lay it on its back. Then you can sit on a stool on the pin side of the piano, and not have to be reaching over the keybed. That's why on an upright, the wire gauges are often marked upside down on the plate. Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090411/5943e66f/attachment.html>
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