Broken Tuning Pin Removal

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Is this a grand or an upright? I've never done it, but heard that you can,
on an upright, dril a hole--location very carefully measured--from the back
of the piano up to the pin, then drive the pin through, plug the hole, etc.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Philip Jamison
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:54 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Broken Tuning Pin Removal


Any ideas for removing a broken pin that's too small for the standard
extractor? It's about .250". Hole doesn't go throught the block, so I can't
punch it out. Pin too thin to use a screw extractor. "Drive-on"- type
extractors would just drive in the pin.

Philip Jamison Pianos
West Chester, PA

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