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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can always just cold chisel them off
and install vertical hitches which usually helps the bass anyway. </span></font></p>
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color:navy'>David</span></font><font size=2 color=navy><span
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davidlovepianos@comcast.net<br>
www.davidlovepianos.com</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>
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color:black'>Hello Everyone, <br>
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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. <br>
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? <br>
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David G. Hughes, RPT <br>
Baltimore Chapter <br>
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