<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I would try a becket breaker.<div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia</div><div><br><div><div>On 13-02-2012, at 1:21 AM, Joseph Garrett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Rob said: <br>"I'm repinning a grand with oversized pins and upon attempting to remove<br>the becket from the old pins to take the old pins out, I've discovered the<br>major pain in the bu** that can materialize from careless CA work. <br><br>Apparently, it was too difficult to direct the CA at the bottom of the<br>tuning pin, and instead an easier route was chosen to just pour the CA over<br>the coil and let it run down into the hole. Since I'm now repinning, the CA<br>didn't work all that well on pin tightness, but it was most excellent at<br>insuring the becket was unable to leave it's little home in the tuning pin.<br>;-)"<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Rob,<br>I'd just suggest you get busy with a big honkin' set of diagonal cutters.<br>Snip the wires and then back the pins out with either a reversable drill or<br>air drill. No biggy, imo. Why do you need to take the wire out of the<br>becket hole? In reality, you're just going to toss those old pins anyway.<br>So, what's the big deal?<G><br> It's obvious that someone really didn't understand how one is supposed to<br>apply CA. I suspect it was the wrong vicosity, as well.<br>That's my take on it.<G><br>Joe <br><br><br>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<br>Captain of the Tool Police<br>Squares R I<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>