[pianotech] Piano dolly question

[David Love]

Well, it is a Francis Bacon suggesting that solid scientific inquiry into
the problem trumps the sanctity of holy artifacts, even at one's own
expense.  Many good ideas in this thread, thanks all for preventing me from
just passing the problem on to Ilvedson (at least for the moment).  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:46 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Piano dolly question

David Love wrote:
> Any ideas as to what to do with this type of piano in order to get it on 
> a tripod dolly (institutional setting).

Get some 7/16"x3" (or thereabouts) steel stock and make 
spanner platforms for each leg, attaching to the dolly leg in 
the center of each. A bolt threaded into the steel on each end 
of each spanner, pointing up, can go into the caster socket to 
corral the legs at a considerably lower cost than replacing 
the legs. It's amazing to me that leg replacement is even 
entertained, considering the list volume generated on 
reversibility of any minute deviation from the sacred 
ancestral morphology. Or is that just in the ultra holy artifacts?
Ron N