Lacking a heat source, you can break those tight glue joints with your hammer removing pliers and a hammer. Light taps will break the bond, then the pliers can push the shank through. I filed off the small nib on the pliers shank so as not to indent the end of the shank. Also, on shanks that might protrude from the hammer molding, the nib causes the shank to flair adding to removal resistance. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hammer removal.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 45440 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090223/f02b15f0/attachment-0001.obj>
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