<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=687455501-20052006>Once in 29 years did I see an agraffe that broke with the strings still in place. This was an old S&S M. The customer on the phone was telling me that an agraffe had broken and I just wouldn't believe her. But she was right. So I had to replace 2 strings in the tenor and the broken thing. I had no problem removing it though. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=687455501-20052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=687455501-20052006>Now, I broke some either while trying to remove or put them back in. In this case they were a little more trouble.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=687455501-20052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=687455501-20052006>Marcel Carey, RPT</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=687455501-20052006>Sherbrooke, QC </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=fr dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Message d'origine-----<BR><B>De :</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>De la part de</B> ed440@mindspring.com<BR><B>Envoyé :</B> 19 mai 2006 16:50<BR><B>À :</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Objet :</B> RE: Broken Agraffe<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Avery-</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm beginning to think this could be wierd. How could it break down in the plate, within the length of the tapped, threaded hole?  How did the top part come out?  Did it rip out part of the threads?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I replaced the agraffes on a 1970's D where holes had not been tapped deep enough to take the agraffe shank. They had been forced in, smashing the threads to fit.  And this required tapping the holes to proper depth before putting in new agraffes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you don't have taps for agraffe holes, maybe you could borrow some and bring them along.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ed Sutton<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>