00:00Welcome back to the piano conversion project. Uh, where were we?
00:06That's it, the strings. It's time to take these strings out. I used a socket from an extra one
00:12that I had to actually fit on top of the little keys and used an extra extension that I had to
00:17make a key removal tool. Obviously it's not coming apart. I'm not the greatest welder, but I mean it
00:23pretty much held up the whole time. So I'm just trying to clean it off and whatnot. I had to stick
00:27it in my drill and then loosen the key up, take the string out, and just keep rinse, repeat, rinse,
00:33repeat. This part was kind of fun. I still have the strings. I don't know what I'm going to do
00:37with them, but it seems a waste to throw them away. Um, but yeah, so there's that.
00:45I feel like I should say something because like
00:49it's kind of that awkward silence. Um, how's your day? I hope you're having a good day.
00:56My day is going well, thank you. Okay, so here we are at the bottom,
01:01taking loose the rest of those strings. Um, so I'm gonna try to take the entire harp out now.
01:06Uh, you'll see that I'll try to take it out in one piece, but that does not happen. Spoiler alert.
01:11So once I took all the bolts and screws out of it, I ended up just taking my side grinder to it
01:16and just trying to cut the bits off. It was cast iron, so this was the heaviest part of the whole
01:21piano. Um, I also figured out that all those little key pins were the things holding the top
01:27together. So I had to basically smash them in, hammer them in, and then pull the top part of
01:33the harp out, which this part really, uh, I shouldn't have been knocking it in as far because
01:38that just made it that much worse. To do this part, this took forever. I used my key removal tool to,
01:45uh, basically ream it out in the hole and then got my channel locks and worked it out. Uh,
01:50this was not pleasant. Trying to use my impact like that. I burned it up, so I had to take a
01:55break on it, let it cool down, charge up, and all that good stuff. But there they are. They're
01:59finally done. I did keep the keys. I'm planning on making key rings out of them and selling them,
02:04but, uh, here we go. Here are the bones of the desk. Um, I, hopefully the next time we see it,
02:11we'll start working on it.
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