This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Spring Valley Manufacturing is the new name of the old Kimball= Co. The last communication I had with them (2 - 3 years ago)= they still had some replacement parts -- bass strings in my= case. They are in Jasper and French Lick Indiana. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: <Piannaman@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:57:28 EST Subject: Upside down Kimball spinet: anyone have casters for= this? This afternoon I got a call from a woman who stated that the= movers had broken the casters on the front "legs" of her piano. = I told her I'd squeeze in a look between appointments. When I= got to her house, the Kimball spinet was wrapped in blankets,= and was upside down! That was a first for me. The front casters were indeed broken. They are those= "futuristic" ball thingies that are virtually useless. Finding= casters like this is not the problem. How they attach to the= piano is another matter. The casters are unremovably attached to the plates. The legs are= rectangles of flat steel that function as legs with toe-blocks. = The caster plates attach to mounts of the same size that are= welded to the legs. Each caster is attached to the piano by 4= machine screws around half an inch long. Is there a storehouse of Kimball parts that anyone has knowledge= of that might have a set of these casters? I will probably= fabricate some gliders out of wood and felt if I can't find= replacements. Then I'll put the piano rightside up and tune= it(if possible). Thanks, Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/85/81/d4/74/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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