Recently I was asked to make a pinblock for a local shop I do contract work for. They had showed me that it had a failed agraffe repair when I saw the piano in their shop. Since it was going to be in my shop anyway I thought I'd just throw in the new insert and agraffe as a lagniappe along with the new block. After all I'm a Registered Piano Technician and thus well versed in all manner of piano repairs. Not only that but I'd just tested negative on a rapid covid test in order to do a tuning in a recording studio. So I was feeling 10 feet tall and bulletproof as well. At this point dear reader take a moment to look up the word hubris in the dictionary (or just google it) and I think you'll see where this is headed. The hole had been drilled out to about 1/4" but something was clearly stuck in the bottom too high up to just drill and tap for the new threaded insert. So I tried drilling down a bit further with a 3/16" cobalt bit. It just sat there spinning. Well darn; I guess I'll try from the bottom side. Ummmm there's no hole in the bottom side. At least not enough hole to get a tool into anyway. So now the plate needs to turn over again and I'm wondering why didn't I do this
before I made the block and glued it in while the plate was already upside down. Well then the fun really started
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Karl Roeder
Pompano Beach FL
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