[Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 65, Issue 89

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Aongus, 
Do you have access to a drill press? ÂI place a piece of steel stock in the collet Âthen I crank the arm of the press 
to gently push the "nail" out of the hole. ÂFrom there you can safely pull out the nail without warping the reed plate. ÂDon't turn the drill on. Just use it as a press. ÂI use this method to 
remove the nails/ brads from plastic comb harps I repair. 


Whacking it out is a bad idea because 1) it can warp the reed plate and 2) whacking it causes the metal tip to spread out making it harder to pull through the hole. 
3) whacking leads to bad harmonica jokes :) 


mike 

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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:17:12 -0000 
From: "Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: [Harp-L] Fettling the Chrometta 
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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. 
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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 Âclosest equivalent size of B.A. or 
small metric setscrew and to drill the opposite reed plate to the tapping 
size for the screw. 

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Beannachtai 
Aongus Mac Cana