<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> List,          =    Recent successful application of thin CA to a nondescript 5’ stencil = grand-. During tuning a few months later a tuning pin broke at the becket. =          =    I haven’t had a tuning pin break on me since my Baldwin dealer days in the 70’s and it is a weird sensation when your lever feels like = silly putty right before the pin breaks.          =    This pin was FROZEN. I tried the schaff tuning pin extractor with no luck. It = just chewed up the pin. Next I tried drilling into the pin for an = “Easyout” screw extractor and broke the drill inside the pin. Nice!  Final = and successful attempt was to drill a small hole in my pin block support, locate the = hole under the pin and drive the remaining mess through the block with a = drift punch and a 2lb sledge. I chased the hole with a drill bit to clean it up, = swabbed the hole w/CA and used a 3/0 tuning pin. The pin is now a bit jumpy, but = tight and tunable          =    The difference on this pin was that a bronze tuning pin bushing had been = used and had really locked things up when I applied the CA. That’s my theory = anyway unless the pin was ready to break for another reason.          =    Just another thing to look out for before the next candidate comes my = way.          =    Tom Driscoll          =             =    P.S. I felt like one of those forensic medical examiners on TV pulling a slug = out of a corpse! </div> </body> </html>