Barb >From my experience with piano trucks, the problems is not necessarily the stem of the caster. The angle of the arm indicates that the center plates are not tightened properly, which is allowing arms of the truck to bend, and the ends of the arms, with the legs on them, almost dragging on the floor, and of course, for the caster stems to have a great deal of pressure on them.? The only solution is to take the piano off the truck completely, and tighten the bolts on the middle plates. Doing one leg at a time will not work. I did that once, and since the arms were still bowed,?I thought they were permanently that way. So I bought and installed a new truck. But after?I took the piano off the old?truck, the?arms were straight. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 6:45 pm Subject: [pianotech] stage truck casters Wowie, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this stage truck under a C6 at a church.? Does anyone have experience with a truck that uses casters with?single stems as the means for attaching?? Wouldn't they break rather easily? ?Yikes.? Get a load of the length of the stem--the?nut at the top is sort?of cute... :-o? ? Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, IL [Image Removed] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081118/ab10c62f/attachment.html>
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