removing and installing piano plates

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu
Fri, 01 Jan 1999 08:25:57 -0600


Mark,

At 08:20 1/1/99 -0500, you wrote:

>I would like to set up an elegant method of using a lift that will bring
>the plate up safely and in a controlled manner, and can then be easily
>transported away from the piano and set down on my tilting truck.  

There are any number of systems which can hoist the plate (I use a 1/2 ton
chain hoist on ceiling hook), 

....but why then move a swinging plate???

After the plate is clear of the case, I simply roll the case out from under
and slide  sawhorses, etc. under.  Then all I have to do is lower the plate.

No danger of plate hitting anything else than floor or sawhorse. Zero
expense for moving hardware.



Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu

         Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) of
   Biopowered Digitally Activated Tone Generation Systems
"If you have to plug it in, or you can't watch how it works,
                I don't work on it."




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