Frozen Agragge

[Bud Schwab]

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That's a good point.  And while you're doing it use a small screw driver 
instead of a punch and sometimes the screw driver will make a little slot 
in the agraffe stub and it will turn right out.  I've found that this will 
work many times.

BudAt 12:08 PM 11/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
>At 05:44 PM 11/18/2000 -0600, Ray wrote:
>
>>I have spent the past couple of hours working on a Steinway L from 1927 
>>with a broken agraffe.  It broke sometime while the family was on 
>>vacation.  I have replaced a few of these in the past without 
>>incident.  The problem:
>>
>>The remainder would not come out!  It seemed to be fused to the plate.  I 
>>tried
>
>I used to own a Honda S-600 back in the late 1960s and it had a brass oil 
>drain plug that threaded into the oil pan. The drain plug would act just 
>as if it were fused to the pan and you could actually strip it with a 
>wrench if you were careless trying to get it out. A single light tap with 
>hammer would free it so you could practically take it out without a wrench.
>
>I haven't had the opportunity to try this, but if you run across this 
>again try giving the stump of the agraffe a light tap with a punch and a 
>hammer before you try anything else as it might indeed be "fused" to the 
>plate in some manner. If anyone tries this, let us know if it works.
>
>                 John
>
>John Musselwhite, RPT    -     Calgary, Alberta Canada
>http://www.musselwhite.com  http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary
>email: john@musselwhite.com    http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom
>

                                                 Bud Schwab
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