Tuners--Broken Pins

[David ilvedson]

> Date:          Tue, 07 Jan 1997 12:18:54 -0600
> From:          Richard M <remoody@easnetsd.com>
> Subject:       Re: Tuners--Broken Pins
> To:            pianotech@byu.edu
> Reply-to:      pianotech@byu.edu

Newton and all,

Could you use a machine jack and a small steel rod?

ilvey,RPT

> Hi Newton
>
> 	As soon as I pressed the send button, it occurred you might be talking
> about punching the pin out from underneath .  But if so why? (Instead of
> from above)  The mental picture of a student driving a pin in head first
> was comical enough not to add  the vision of the contortions of a
> technican trying to drive  it back out from the underside.  So how would
> such a task be accomplished?  A 90=B0 punch? A press rigged up with thos=
e
> cute little house jacks?  A half inch punch then an extractor from above=
?
> 	Offering some arm chair hind-sight, perhaps the piano could be placed
> upside down on horses, and a hole bored through the key bed.  You might
> need a driving punch longer than 9 ".
> x( :_
>
> Richard Moody
>
> btw    How did you get it out?
>
>
>
> ----------
> > From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu>
> > To: pianotech@byu.edu
> > Subject: Re: Tuners--Broken Pins
> > Date: Tuesday, January 07, 1997 7:04 AM
> >
> > Hi, Richard,
> > 	You are right, I saw but did not look.
> > 	This tool would work punching through the block from the top side, no=
t
> > from undernieth.
> > 	Thanks for the lesson.
> > 		Newton
>
>
>