[pianotech] Bumpers for Piano Dolly

[David Stocker]

I've had thoughts of getting longer bolts for the castors and attaching a 
2x4 or some other chunk of wood to the top of the plate holding castor. Then 
staple padding, a piece of carpet or some other material to the wood so it 
sticks out as little as necessary to prevent the metal from scraping walls, 
etc.

David Stocker, RPT
Tumwater, WA

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From: "Terry Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 15:35
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: [pianotech] Bumpers for Piano Dolly

> I bought and installed a piano dolly on a Yamaha studio upright for a 
> local church. They have the piano in the sanctuary back-to-back with  the 
> HUGE organ. The organ is new and with a nice wooden case. The  dolly on 
> the piano has the rear casters mounted to the dolly rearward  from the 
> plane of the piano back - so there is a horizontal piece of  steel about 
> six inches long and about four inches off the floor. If  someone were to 
> push the piano toward the organ, the steel piano dolly  would dig into the 
> nice wooden case of the organ.
>
> I wish to put some sort of bumper on the piano dolly to protect the 
> organ. Anyone have any great ideas?
>
> I was going to bend a piece of quarter-inch thick dense foam rubber  180 
> degrees (always forget how to make the little "o"-thing for  degrees!) and 
> glue it to the painted-black steel with contact cement -  I think that 
> might work, but I'm concerned about stinking up the  sanctuary. I had 
> actually gone there to do the job last week when just  as I was about to 
> open the bottle of contact cement people started to  walk in for an 
> imminent baby baptism.
>
> Something like the strips of plastic one might put on the edge of a  car 
> door to protect it from getting chipped - only a lot (not alot!)  thicker 
> and bigger and made of rubber, etc.
>
> I know someone out there has to be more creative than I.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Terry Farrell
>