Pulling Plates

[Greg Newell]

Terry,
         Shutterbug away! I'd love to see it. Thanks.
Greg



At 06:25 AM 12/9/2004, you wrote:
>You know, now that you mention it, after I had the plate refinished, I would
>first wrap an old (clean) rag around the strut first, and then wrap the
>nylon strap around that. Oops, scrap the nylon thing - I see now they are
>polyester (I'm looking at one). They are 1-inch wide and 4-feet long. They
>have a vertical capacity of 1,600 lbs. They have big loops at each end. I
>purchased them at Wholesale Tool  http://www.wttool.com/ .
>
>Originally, I used three of these straps only and hooked them into my
>ceiling-mounted chain-fall. I would have to manually try to adjust their
>positions to get an even lift - very less than optimal. After picking up
>some ideas from this list, I am now using two adjustable straps between the
>polyester strap on the plate and the hook of the chain-fall (I use the
>adjustable thing on the two front straps and simply run the rear strap
>full-length directly from the plate to the chain-fall hook - no adjustment).
>The adjustable straps I am using are rather light-duty (I seem to recall a
>breaking strength of around 400 lbs. - arguably somewhat marginal strength)
>and do not have a ratchet, but rather a simply thumb-controlled
>hold-clamp-apparatus (it's actually a thingee) - it has never slipped (yeah,
>I know what you are thinking - me too!). Very quick to adjust and easily get
>a nice even lift. When I see something similar, but with higher breaking
>strength, in a tool store, I will pick those up and switch to something with
>a greater weight rating.
>
>If anyone wishes for a picture, I would be happy to take one and send it
>your way. I've got a plate hanging in mid-air as we speak!
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>www.farrellpiano.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Musselwhite" <john@musselwhite.com>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:15 AM
>Subject: RE: Pulling Plates
>
>
> > At 11:19 PM 12/08/04 -0500, Chuck wrote:
> >
> > >I've been wrapping a thick, soft, nylon strap around struts, capo, etc.
> > >for lifting.
> > >
> > >
> > >Where you find this kind of strap Terry? How thick, how wide?
> >
> > One suggestion might be used auto seat belts since you can probably get
> > them for free. I'd still pad them around the plate though. If you don't
> > trust the quick release you could always sew D-rings or something into
>them.
> >
> > As for something other than a rafter or engine hoist to hang your seat
> > belts (and chain fall) from to lift out the plate, has anyone ever tried
> > using a modified child's outdoor swing set?  You could probably pick up a
> > well-built old one for next-to-nothing and if you cleaned it up, added
>some
> > decent bolts and cut the cross-tube down to the width of a piano it should
> > be plenty strong enough for a plate. If you needed to you could even
>sister
> > a couple of 2x4s to reinforce the crossbar and add blocks under the legs
>if
> > it isn't high enough.
> >
> >                  John
> >
> > John Musselwhite, RPT    -     Calgary, Alberta Canada
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> >
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Greg Newell
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