Good point, William: I've removed and remounted many a leg that movers hurriedly put on a piano several years before. Sometimes a miracle that the leg did not slip out of the plate and have the piano fall on the floor. The eyeball check is to look for air between the top of the leg and the bottom of the keybed. I would lift each leg with a jack as William suggests and check all three legs, can't assume anything. After all, how many lyres have you repositioned after the movers left? Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Monroe Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:16 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] 7' grand moves on thick padded carpet Cy, As Paul alluded to, I'd first suspect that the legs are not tight. If it's on thick carpet and thick pad under that, I wouldn't think the thing would move down there. This may be an opportunity to bring along a jack-in-the-box and take each leg off, one by one, and make sure each has tight plates, mated well, and seated deeply enough. We just remedied this type of thing on a 9' HF Miller that was swayin' in the wind, and it was a combination of loose plates, and a loose through bolt in the tail - the nut was up on top of the apron, tucked in there nicely. ;-] William R. Monroe On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Cy Shuster <cy at shusterpiano.com> wrote: A customer has a Mason BB on thick carpet with thick padding underneath, that moves fore-and-aft with pedaling. Caster cups don't make much difference (these are the 3 1/2" wide double casters). The casters aren't rolling (so brakes wouldn't help); there's just not enough side resistance. Ideas? Terry, what do you use on those cruise ships again? --Cy-- Cy Shuster, RPT ABQ, NM www.shusterpiano.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090623/3e69c47c/attachment.htm>
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