Greetings List, First of all I wanted to say thank you to every one who chimed in and offered their collective insight on how to properly install a set of dollies for an upright. I learned quite a bit in the last few days, which made my job today a breeze! An extra big thanks go to Isaac Sadigursky, who phoned me at home last evening and gave me tremendous insight into how to get the job done quickly and safely. He patiently answered all my questions for 20 minutes and helped me gather all the right tools for the job. Thanks, Isaac!! Secondly, Jim McCormac emailed me and offered me the use of his tilter. I'm sorry we weren't able to connect in time, but the offer was more than generous. Thanks, Jim! So here's what I did. I took all my power tools, different sized bolts, lag screws, etc. and put them all in a backpack. This made it a lot easier to transport across the campus to the band room. The Yamaha P22 was on short carpeting already, but I still used an additional blanket to cushion the piano. Without a tilter (this time!), I enlisted the aid of a couple of 8th grade boys, Matt and Andy, that volunteered to help. With their help we gently lowered the piano on to its side. The boys helped me hold up the dollies so I could mark where the screws needed to go. I then pre-drilled a 7/32's hole for the 5/16" x 1-1/2" lag screws that I used on the back side. On the underside a 1/4" x 1-1/2" hex head machine thread bolt was used along with a large fender washer to disperse the load, a lock washer, and a nut. Due to the location of the holes and the depth of the bottom board and bottom back frame, I was only able to put in two lag screws on the back and two bolts on the bottom of each dolly. Nothing impinges or interferes with the pedal actions. Also, the rear two holes on the bottom of the dolly lined up exactly with the soundboard. I definitely did not want to drill through the side of that! I also removed the remaining casters from the piano. Two were already missing. Luckily, the piano had no other damage. So, here's some photos to laugh at... er... to criticize.... uh... I mean, to peruse. By the way, total time from start to finish was 35 minutes! Thanks again! Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC Murrieta, CA rob at mccallpiano.com www.mccallpiano.com 951-698-1875 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0656.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 42403 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091104/b1f0eee6/attachment-0006.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0657.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 44596 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091104/b1f0eee6/attachment-0007.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0658.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 46082 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091104/b1f0eee6/attachment-0008.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0659.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 52479 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091104/b1f0eee6/attachment-0009.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0660.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 45250 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091104/b1f0eee6/attachment-0010.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0661.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 47516 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091104/b1f0eee6/attachment-0011.jpg> -------------- next part --------------
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