[pianotech] Piano dolly question

[David Ilvedson]

I decline... '-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 2/1/2010 10:09:37 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Piano dolly question


>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