Broken Tuning Pin Removal

[Norman Barrett]

The 1st thing I would try is drill a hole down the middle of the tuning pin and use an easyout extracter. An easyout that would work on a 3/16 screw should work here. An alternate method would be to drill the tuning pin out with  3/8 drill and plug the hole and redrill for the tuning pin.

Norm Barrett
Memphis chapter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Jamison" <mortier@netreach.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:54 PM
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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