[pianotech] new Steinway casters on old steinway legs

[David Love]

You can plate them but as I mentioned but the bearings are loose and
rattling (that's part of the reason we're changing them to new) and nickel
plating them won't solve that problem and could make it worse on the ones
that aren't rattling.  It's a sealed system so injecting grease is not
possible unless someone has a method.  

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: Saturday, September 15, 2012 7:08 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] new Steinway casters on old steinway legs

On 9/15/2012 8:58 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote:
> Why not just send the original casters out to be nickeled?

Or
http://www.caswellplating.com/electroplating-anodizing/nickel-plating-kits/e
lectroless-nickel-plating-kits.html

Ron O has been electroless nickel plating agraffes and counter bearing bars
for some time, to good effect. I don't know why it wouldn't work with
casters too.

Ron