Dear, Greg & Keith, Renner, make a very nice tool for extracting knuckles/rollers if you want to part with your hard earned money. On the other hand, I made my own. We have a local secondhand tool shop I bought a pair of secondhand pinches for 50p (these are what carpenters use for removing nails, or an oversized pair of them beautifully made Sweedish flush cutters) I grind down the top of the pinches so that the cutting edge became sharp so that the pinches could cut cleanly. Then I drilled a hole in one of the shafts placed an inch long self-tapping screw. This screw is then used to adjust the distance that the jaws close. You adjust this distance so it is the thickness of the wooden part of the knuckle. You then place your pinches over the knuckle closing firmly and the pinches will cut through the glue and the leather, but leavoing the wooden part intact and a sideways movement removes the knuckle cleanly. I also have another little tool it is just a peice of wood with two sieenior hack saws glued together in a slot, I use this to clean out the groove before replacing the new knuckles. Two saws glued together is just about the right thickness for most shanks. Change of direction while we are on the subject of knuckles I tend to use Japanese a lot and I have noticed over the years, may be me... but they seem to be getting harder, they seem to be using a more denser backing pad any one else come across this? Regards, Barrie. In article <v0151011faea8320739fb@[208.129.71.53]>, "Keith A. McGavern" <kam544@ionet.net> writes >>...I would like to inquire of your great minds how you go about >>removing old knuckles for replacement... >>Greg & Mary Ellen Newell > >Dear Greg, > >There is a tool that works like magic. It's called the Hart Knuckle >Buster. I bought mine from Glen Hart at the 1995 Albuquerque PTG >convention. Last phone # I have is 970-434-5558. Seems like I saw this >same tool at Spurlock Specialty in 1996 Dearborn PTG convention as well. >Last phone/fax # I have for him is 707-452-8564. > >.Keith A. McGavern >kam544@ionet.net >Registered Piano Technician >Oklahoma Chapter 731 >Oklahoma Baptist University >Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA > > > -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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