DVD on Pedal Steel Repair

[Jeff Savage]

Can anyone tell me if anyone ever made a DVD on working on or repairing an all pull pedal steel, preferably an Emmons, I'm way up in northern N.Y. where I don't know of a lot of steel players and no repair men that I know of anyways...gonna have to do it myself I guess and just thought that if there was some instructional DVD on the subject then it would be a little easier...Thanks.

[Jack Hanson]

Clem Schmitz has a very good little booklet and a set of DVDs available on his eBay site. Although there's info on other brands as well, the material is most definitely Emmons-centric:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pedal-Steel-Gu ... SwXWhbypA8

[Billy Carr]

What's the problem w/Emmons?

[Jeff Savage]

I broke the pin in a changer finger and I'm not to confident about taking it apart to fix myself.

[Richard Stoops]

This may be a long shot, but you might try YOUTUBE. I've used this resource for just about everything I've done that I didn't know how to do. It amazes me how much info there is in the website. Wouldn't hurt to look.

[Jack Hanson]

I broke the pin in a changer finger and I'm not to confident about taking it apart to fix myself.

Clem covers that repair procedure on a cut-tail D-10 in his most recent (August 2018) DVD.

[Bobby D. Jones]

If the pin broke off, Could be quite a project.
Is the pin a solid pin, or Roll Pin ???
If it is a roll pin, It should have a very small hole in the middle of the pin. It may be possible to put a small drill bit in a drill and contact the center of the pin. If the pin wants to grab on the drill bit and spin in the hole, Oil the pin and you may be able to let the drill spin the pin and get it to back out of the hole till you can get a hold of the pin with needle nose pliers and remove the broken part, Then replace with a new pin.

Go Slow and Careful not to damage the finger.
Good Luck on this project.

[Jeff Savage]

I think the pin is solid.

[Larry Jamieson]

Jeff,
If it is easy to get access to the broken pin without taking the changer apart or off the guitar, take it to a good local machine shop. A technician there would be able to get the old pin out and replace it for you.