Broken Tuning Pin Removal

[Carl Meyer]

No reason you couldn't do this on a grand.  Just drill a hole in the key bed and use a really long drill.  

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tune4u@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: Broken Tuning Pin Removal


> 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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