Tilt it somehow

[Farrell]

Boy, don't you know it. And for anyone with even a teeny tiny shop setup,
there are so many other uses! I am constantly using it for a portable
table - just lay a piece of plywood on it. It is my standart portable table
when I bleach ivory keys and have to move them outside and in at night.
Right now, I am putting a plate in and out of a piano doing bearing,
pinblock clearance, etc. When it is out, it goes onto the tilter and is
wheeled out of the way! Someone wrote a while back that they spray their
plates while on the tilter - my next plate will be refinished while on the
tilter - just the right height (besides, my tilter is brand new and it
doesn't look broken in yet)! The few caster jobs I have done the clients
were ultra impressed that I was so well prepared for the job. ("Oh, I'm so
glad I called you instead of letting my Harry try to do that.") I think this
is part of how a good word gets around your services. When I get an old
upright in my shop for rebuilding, the very first thing that happens is that
it gets tilted back and new darnell double wheel casters are installed -
from then on it is no problem moving it about the shop. Run, don't walk to
get a good tilter if you do not have one!

Did I say everyone should have one?

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kinnear" <jkinnear@pianoguy.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Tilt it somehow


> I sure agree with Clyde . .  after years of propping up the end of the
piano
> on a milk crate, whilst I puttered about underneath, I'm glad to have
> survived. I bought a used one a few years ago from a retired fellow in
> Barrie Ont. Worth every penny as has already been said . .  'what price
life
> and limb' . . . . .
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Jim Kinnear
> www.pianoguy.com
>
>