Tuners--Broken Pins

[Jon Page]

I have never broken a pin or agraffe, but a few have broken on me.
Biggest occurances are 20's vintage M's' agraffes. Seems they
cranked them in too tight rather than fit them for a while.
A while back I told the sad, sad tale of a broken ez-out in an M. (shutter)
What a nightmare, but a carbide tip in a Dremel Tool saved the day.
Next time I'll make that 'fish-tail' tool.
Jon Page
Cape Cod. Mass
jpage@capecod.net
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At 03:24 PM 1/4/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>From Sy Zabrocki
>How often do tuning pins break while tuning? Apparently not very often. It
would interesting to know how many tuners have broken one and how many have
not. In 38 years I never have experienced a broken pin. This time represents
about 32,000 tunings.  Also, I have never seen a broken agraffe. Have I just
been lucky?

Jon Page
Cape Cod. Mass
jpage@capecod.net
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