You can always just cold chisel them off and install vertical hitches which usually helps the bass anyway. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com Hello Everyone, I wish to upgrade the quality of my restorations by installing new hitch pins (frankly strictly for cosmetic reasons). Perhaps some of you are doing this already. More power to you. My first question of one of removal of the original pins. Getting the ones out that serve the long bridge from the backside of the plate via a drift punch and hammer seems straightforward enough. The problem arises on Steinway (and other) plates, however, where the hitch pins for the bass section do not protrude through the casting. These can not be driven out from the back. How can they be easily/successfully removed? David G. Hughes, RPT Baltimore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080712/8b507496/attachment.html
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