SV: Broken Tuning Pin Removal

[gordon stelter]

This is a great idea! And one could make a pattern of
paper tracing the holes where the "map" pins were
removed, then tape it over these same holes, drilled
through the piano back, to help find the spot for
drilling the "escape" hole! Cool!
     Thump 

--- Kjell Sverre Fardal <ksfardal@online.no> wrote:
> Hi, Philip;
> 
> This is how I do it, if nothing else works:
> 
> Remove 2 or 3 of the pins closest to the broken pin,
> and drill holes right
> through the block (6 or 6,5 mm on normal tuning pin
> sizes). From the
> back-side of the piano (upright), mark the spot
> where the broken pin`s hole
> should end up. Then bore from the back-side until
> you reach the end of the
> broken pin (I use hammer shanks as guides in the
> other holes to get the
> right bore-angle). Now you will be able to drive the
> broken pin through the
> block (from the front-side)...
> I`ve done it several times, not that difficult!
> 
> Kjell Sverre Fardal / NPTF
> Kristiansand / Norway
> ksfardal@online.no
> 
> 
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> Fra: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]På
> vegne av Philip Jamison
> Sendt: 16. februar 2003 21:54
> Til: pianotech@ptg.org
> Emne: 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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