Patrick Wouldn't be easier to cut the damper wire, remove the whole damper tray, remove the lever and drill out the hole in a vise. Or replace the lever with a modern one with brass cauls. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrick C. Poulson <pcpoulson at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 8:23 am Subject: [pianotech] Broken Damper Wire Screw Removal Hello: I am working on a grand that has glued-in damper flanges, and one of the bass dampers has a wire screw that is broken on flush with the wood. Does anyone have a reliable method for removing the broken stub? I have consider using a small hole cutter to remove the screw and surrounding wook, plugging and then redrilling for a new screw. Has anyone found an alternative?? Thanks,? Parick C Poulson? Registered Piano Technician? 530 265-1983 ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090819/d47edc08/attachment.htm>
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