This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Just like guns, piano tilters are dangerous in the hands of someone who = doesn't know what they are doing. Bill Spurlock gave a demo some years ago how to use a tilter. The key is to keep a pressure between the piano and the tilter so that = the toes are digging into the bottom of the piano. That goes counter = to instinct. Pull back on the tilter while pulling the piano back and = keep a pressure on the tilter or the piano will slide out from under. =20 When bringing it up, make sure the tilter is pulled back to keep the = toes in firm contact with the bottom of the piano while you push the = piano onto its casters. =20 Visualize it this way. With your left hand pull the tilter back and = with your right hand push the piano forward. Push them apart but if you = are right handed the piano will win and be vertical. (We are talking = about verticals aren't we?) I learned this the hard way, but I'm still = vertical. =20 Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG Santa Clara, California cmpiano@home.com =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Kdivad@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:26 PM Subject: Re: Running CA In a message dated 10/18/2001 5:36:11 PM Central Daylight Time, = cedel@supernet.com writes:=20 The tilter I use is in the current Schaff catalog and is called a=20 "modern shop repair truck," priced at $235 plus freight. I bought = it=20 several years ago and have used it maybe ten times. It did not come = with a strap, and I may live to regret saying this, but I have never = felt the need for one. Has anyone had a piano scoot out with this = exact=20 piece of equipment?=20 Regards,=20 Clyde=20 Clyde, this is the exact piece of equipment I warned about earlier. I = suggest strapping to the back beams as close to the tilters bars as you = can get instead of strapping around the piano. We have found that you = cannot get the straps tight enough if you run them around the sides, if = the piano "runs away" it will stretch the straps and let the toes slide = out from under the piano causing the tilter to jump back violently. The = tilter may not come loose from the piano but it can move far enough to = hurt you. We tilt 3 or 4 uprights a day and the number of times we have = had this problem is few over 30 plus years, but the consequences can be = severe and that is why I warn anyone who might use this tilter. It is a = great invaluable tool and we could not do without it, just use it = carefully.=20 David Koelzer=20 DFW=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fd/24/02/f1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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