>The area isn't expanded or stressed. Correctly drilled, the brass shank >repair sleeve fits neatly into the pilot hole, and the hammer shank fits >nice and neat into the brass shank repair sleeve. But the posted repair suggestion wasn't for using a brass shank repair sleeve, it was for using a metal tuning pin bushing. Different critter, and IMO not nearly as good an idea as the shank repair sleeve. Ron N
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