At 05:37 PM 2/4/2003 -0500, Sarah wrote: >Just drill a small hole, push the tip of the extractor in the hole, and turn. "Just drill a small hole" ... looking at that stub of the agraffe, I don't think I could have said the "just." Then Avery's quotes corroborated my first impression. "*carefully* drill around the busted easy-out part," "Steinway has available a repair agraffe for which you must tap a larger hole." "If or when all else fails," "if you try to drill more with a hard drill bit, there is a good chance the bit will catch on the broken easy-out" "lots of very hard steel in there. Ask me how I know!!!" "If this fails," you need a reversible drill, a left-handed drill bit, a titanium bit, an oversized tap and a repair agraffe. Nightmare words. Luckily once I got by with a dremel tool and a grinding disk, and a small cold chisel. And just last week I got by with a bent icepick. Lucky. Susan
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