[pianotech] Agraffe abuse

[Ron Nossaman]

On 3/8/2012 12:13 PM, Horace Greeley wrote:

> Equally unfortunate is the number of times one finds this improper
> installation duplicated by post-manufacturing technicians. Quite
> prevalent. Still, from your photos, these look like the original product.

They're the original product, no doubt, and probably but not guaranteed 
original installation damage. The short threading and obvious forcing of 
the agraffe in spite of lacking threads at the top is quite familiar. 
These are just the most severely deformed tops I've seen as a result of 
over torquing, which indicates the wrong tool, or one in unusably bad 
shape, making it an extraordinarily good example of an extraordinarily 
bad example.

Ron N