[pianotech] Field hammer shank replacement

[Thomas Cole]

Lim,

In answer to you and Paul Revenko Jones, I have used Bill Spurlock's 
method of removing shanks quite successfully. For example, a Baldwin 
Hamilton parked in the hallway of a school had all of its bass hammers 
broken off. I used Bill's method to extract all of the shanks without 
incident, no drilling necessary.

Broken *cedar* shanks OTOH just crumble as you pull on the drywall screw 
and drilling is usually needed in my experience. I like the comments 
Gregor made, though, and will give a try next time.

Tom Cole

limhseng at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> I have followed the method of hammer shank replacement taught by Bill 
> Spurlock in the PTG Pace articles. It works! Correct me if I am wrong 
> 'List'.
>
> Lim
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> *From: * Michael Staples <mastaples at gmail.com>
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> *Date: *Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:02:10 -0400
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> *Subject: *[pianotech] Field hammer shank replacement
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> When you have to replace a broken, crumbly (cedar?) vertical hammer 
> shank in the field, what method and tools do you use to do the job in 
> an efficient and accurate manner?
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> Thanks,
>  
> Michael Staples
> PTG associate member
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