<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div> Dale,<br />     An idea from a non-rebuilding technician---   There are 3  or so holes drilled in every soundboard to allow the nose bolts to connect the beams to the plate.<br /> If you had access to drill another hole in the panel just below this hitch pin you could punch it the rest of the way out. <br />Not a very elegant solution  and you would have to have some luck as to the location of beams but why not ? You could even cut a plug out of soundboard material to fill the hole and being under the plate it could be our little secret .<br />   Just thinking off the top of what's left of my head----<br />Tom Driscoll  RPT<br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px 0px;"></div><span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 07/02/11, <span>Dale Probst<dale@wardprobst.com></span> wrote:</span><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"><div><span class="328281018-02072011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Hi Dale,</font></span></div><div><span class="328281018-02072011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="328281018-02072011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Sorry, here's the deal: hitch pin next to treble strut broke flush with plate on second chip session. Drove the remnant through plate but there is insufficient clearance between the bottom of the plate and the top of the soundboard for the the remnant of the hitch pin to clear. I'd like to get that remnant out with out pulling the plate if possible- piano is strung and chipped. And ideas?</font></span></div><span class="328281018-02072011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font><div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><br />DP</font></div><div></div></span><font size="2">Dale Probst RPT</font></div></div>