APSCO portable piano tilter

[John Ross]

Hi Paul,
I have a tilter I bought from Tuners Supply, that had two clamps that hooked

around the back posts. I don't use them at all. I had an accident, by
depending on them, one fell off when the load of the piano went on the
tilter, I thought the other will hold. It didn't and I ended up with a
broken nose and two black eyes. It came up like a rake handle when stepped
on.
Now I just tilt it away from the piano to get it to digin to the bottom of
the piano, then I tilt the piano onto it. I have no problems at all. But I
am VERY careful.
The angle iron on mine, fitted around the angle iron on the tilter. Like L
and an upside down L hooking together.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada


"Paul S. Larudee" wrote:

> List,
>
> I finally bit the bullet and bought a portable piano tilter from APSCO a
> couple of months ago because I'm tired of the acrobatics I have to do in
> my van when I take my larger one from Schaff to a job site.  Used it for
> the first time last week, and it's great except that it comes with two
> clamps which are supposed to be used to lock the tilter to the frame
> posts.
>
> I tried every conceivable way that I could think of to use those clamps,
> without success.  For the information of those who don't have one, the
> clamps are 1/2" threaded steel rods about 8" long with a small plate
> roughly 1" x 2" welded on one end in a plane perpendicular to the axis
> of the rod.  A piece of angle iron of roughly the same size slides
> loosely along the rod by means of a hole in one arm of the angle.
> Finally, a large wing nut screws onto the free end of the rod.
>
> The clamp is clearly designed so that the welded plate gets braced on a
> post while the angle iron fastens onto the tilter and the wing nut
> tightens it in place.  Problem is I can't figure out any way to make the
> angle iron fasten anywhere and tighten the nut.  I can of course bypass
> the problem by not using the clamps, which is what I did on this job,
> and use straps instead.  If there is a right way to use them, however, I
> would be interested to know.
>
> It is almost impossible to respond to this unless you own one of these
> things, because of all the dimensions of the parts and the way they fit
> together (or don't).  Anybody got one and had to deal with this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul S. Larudee, RPT
> Richmond, CA