Steinway Aggraffe

[Isaac OLEG]

hi List,

I have no much time to write those days, but I just catch on this
agrafe and remember the poor results with the easy out.

I drill a medium hole in the agrafe and use a square awl to unscrew
it. works better than any easy out (that tend to lock the agrafe in
the thread)topping the square in the hole is notdifficult and you have
a lot of strenght with 4 edges . One may be careful with the aul also
as they break easely.

Best Regards to all !

Isaac OLEG

AFARP member.

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-----Message d'origine-----
De : caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de
Susan Kline
Envoye : jeudi 10 juin 2004 16:25
A : College and University Technicians
Objet : Re: Steinway Aggraffe


At 09:19 AM 6/10/2004 -0400, you wrote:

><< I've got an out of town customer who has called about a broken
giraffe
>
>on a 1980 Steinway M. Does anyone know what size that might be? I
hate
>
>to make the drive and show up with the wrong stuff. >>
>
>Hi Liz,
>    That should be the 1/4" thread.  Don't forget your washers, drill
slow
> and
>straight, and don't force the EZ-out!!
>Ed

The three times I've had to get out a broken agraffe, I've not had to
resort to the easy-out. Tapping gingerly around the edges, urging the
stub to rotate in a counter-clockwise direction has always got it
turning for me. Once I used the corner of a small cold chisel, and the
other two times I used the end of an ice pick to grab at
irregularities
in the stub (near the edge) and get it rotating. I held the ice pick
at a low angle, below 45 degrees. Once the stub is turning,
you're home free.

I admit that the next time I may not be so lucky, but I do suggest at
least trying to get the thing to turn out before reaching for the
drill
and EZ-out. My feeling is that the drill spreads the brass into the
threads, while they don't start out particularly seized up before
drilling. The strain is at the place where the agraffe broke, in
a lateral direction, and once it's broken, of course any
strain down where the threads are is relieved.

Oh, and bring some nice hay and alfalfa for the giraffe. It must be
getting pretty hungry by now.

<grin> I once gave spell-check its head while writing a little piece,
and the hilarity was worth the waste of time.

Susan Kline


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