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<font size=3>Mike, <br><br>
Love it! :-D My feelings exactly! <br><br>
Avery <br><br>
At 06:12 PM 3/11/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">For one such tough nut I went
through the hole in the top and screwed the bottom of the can to a bench
with two screws, grabbed the lip of the big hole with a plier and was
able to spin it off. For another the fix was to stomp on it and toss
it.<br>
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Mike<br><br>
<a href="mailto:justpianos@our.net.au">justpianos@our.net.au</a> wrote:
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</font><pre>About 6 years ago I bought enough canisters to cover my
requirements for
wire coils I had previously bought. I could open all but one. I tried
hot,
cold, vice, lubrication, all to no avail, until recently, when it just
"gave" one day.
Keep trying.
Bruce Browning
The Piano Tuner.
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<pre>Does anyone have a "trick" to unscrewing one of those wire
canisters
from Mapes that haven't been opened in several years? My hands aren't
that strong. Or maybe I'm just getting old! :-D
Avery
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