I tried the brush thing once. I found that the darn thing wears down after a few dozen holes - so your holes come out different sizes, depending on the state of wear on the brush. Just didn't do it for me. I think that ended up being the first time I tried plugging a pinblock - because the brush thing worked so poorly (for me anyway). Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean May" <deanmay@pianorebuilders.com> > Seems like if you were to chuck it up and spin it in a slow cordless > drill you should be able to remove it while it is spinning. > > Dean > Dean May > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On > Behalf Of John Ross > > I did try the brush thing, but I did not have much success. > The brush I had was a twisted wire type of shaft, and the handle, if it > had > one, was not a secure one. I don't remember if it had one, it was a long > > time ago. > Anyway, I twisted it and got the brush in the pin hole, but I couldn't > get > it out, without a lot of trouble. Reason being the bristles were > pointing > out of the hole, and dug in, when I tried to remove it. Almost like some > > animals teeth, the grab, and you have to rip to get free. > If it originally had a handle, it pulled off, when trying to remove the > brush. It was the one from Pianotek TPB-1. > I never did get it to work right. Mind you, my methodology, might have > been > wrong. But how can I be wrong, you push it in, and then pull out. > Except, it > wouldn't come out. > John M. Ross
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