Waterbound

[John Delacour]

At 11:58 -0600 24/2/08, Annie Grieshop wrote:

>So, water's bound to come in.  And the question is:  how can I best protect
>the instruments and still be able to get the water out of there?  I have two
>dollies, but I'm also looking for more ideas.  Much as I hope none of y'all
>has ever been faced with this kind of problem, I suspect at least a couple
>of you have.  What did you do and how did it work out?

I sympathize, Annie, since I have had, and still have plenty of 
problems with my new workshop, which is a converted silo 30 ft. round 
on two levels, all done by the farmer to the highest agricultural 
standards!  The water problems are now just about fixed and the 
condensation problems upstairs will be fixed next month.

Downstairs I have a plain concrete floor, which ought to have been 
covered properly before I moved in in July but since I'd been 
promised it would be ready in March, I was in a hurry to get out of 
limbo, so we now need to lay the floor (which will be a coated beech 
ply made by the same firm that makes Delignit) with all the pianos 
machinery etc. in situ.

I bought a load of cheap 4" nylon casters on eBay and I've had the 
welder make up a simple square frame in 20x40mm rectangular hollow 
section.  I have two casters on each about 5" from the end.  Each 
piano has two of these, one at each end.  I'll take a picture.  So 
far the welder's lad has only made one and I need to get a price and 
make some quality observations before getting them to go ahead and 
make about 20 of them.  The casters were about $4 apiece and the 
frames ought not to cost more than $10, so for about $20 per trolley 
I should have a cheap and convenient way to get the pianos (whether 
grand or upright) mobile.  For uprights they're also useful when 
French-polishing the sides, toes and pedal rail.

JD