<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3px"><PRE><TT>Wim, Bad advice, if the thing needs to be used again. Just what you need is a weird brass nut that is all gowed up from banging on it with an inappropriate tool! I guess that's why I'm the CotTP.<G> Joe</PRE></TT></BLOCKQUOTE></div> <div>Joe</div> <div> </div> <div>If you do as I suggested, "tap gently", you won't have that problem .Of course, there are limits to "gently" and sometimes the thing is frozen, and you have to use brute force. In that case, even the tool you suggest will mar the brass. But most of the time gentle tapping will do the job. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Joseph Garrett <joegarrett@earthlink.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, Jun 28, 2012 5:05 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] bad technique<br> <br> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12px" id=AOLMsgPart_0_a0aa12d7-8a61-436f-8833-8454c3341d54><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Wim said: "Gene, You can make a screw driver as Joe suggested. But the way I used to remove these nuts is by gently tapping on one side of the nut with a small screw driver blade. Depending on how tight it is, determines the size of the hammer, and the force used to loosen it." Wim, Bad advice, if the thing needs to be used again. Just what you need is a weird brass nut that is all gowed up from banging on it with an inappropriate tool! I guess that's why I'm the CotTP.<G> Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I </TT></PRE></div> </div> </font>