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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 18, 2003 =
6:50
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Broken Screw =
Extraction</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone have any good suggestions on how to remove a broken screw =
from a
pinblock? One of the pressure bar screws on the upright I am =
restringing
twisted off. The break is slightly above the pinblock surface, but =
well below
the plate (about a half-inch hole in the plate). I think it is about a =
#10
screw.<BR><BR>Just when things were going fairly =
well........<BR><BR>Terry
Farrell<BR>
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<DIV>Too late now, but I recently bought some Craftsman (Sears "model" =
no.
52154) broken screw extractors (3 sizes in one package) that have =
worked for
me so far. They have a hex shank and are kind of like a sharp =
Phillips
head that digs into the screw and backs it out. </DIV>
<DIV> The ones Joseph Garratt mentions are more like =
a
backwards jack spring hole reamer -- probably better.</DIV>
<DIV> P.S. Craftsman (Crapsman) tools may not =
be the
finest or the most expensive you can buy, but I have many many of =
them, both
handtools and (older) power tools, and in 25 years have had a problem =
with
maybe two of them -- one drill and one wrench. Both were =
replaced free
at Sears, no questions asked. </DIV>
<DIV> --David Nereson,
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