[Harp-L] Fettling the Chrometta

["Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Having decided that I cannot defer my repair/customising career any longer
I finally brought myself to taking the covers off a tired old G Chrometta
that I had lying in my harp box for the past few years. Seeing as it had a
plastic comb,  I figured it would be a screw together item. I was surprised
to find that the clever little cobblers at Hohner seem to have nailed it
together by driving or pressing nails through the comb into the  opposing
reedplate. Unlike timber combs I don't reckon that the brass reedplates
would stand for this treatment more than once nor be amenable to toothpick
packing.
My proposed plan of action to deal with the problem is to make a small anvil
by drilling a hole in a piece of steel stock large enough to take the nail
heads and then to drive the nails out by a carefully delivered whack on the
pointy end. If this is not disastrous, then my next trick will be to drill
out the first reedplate to take the  closest equivalent size of B.A. or
small metric setscrew and to drill the opposite reed plate to the tapping
size for the screw.

Anyone else done this?
Does anyone make a kit like the one harponline.de supplies for "screwifying"
Hohner 270 Chromonicas?

Beannachtai
Aongus Mac Cana