<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>Hi, Jon -</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I agree with Roger - that your second fix below is the way to go.  Do what he says and it will be just fine.  We did a restoration on a 7' Bechstein a couple years ago, 1920 I think.  Same casters with the large offset.  I was amazed to discover that they were absolutely solid in spite of the passing 80 years, weight, etc.  Of course they were perfectly fitted to begin with.  If you wipe a very thin coating of grease on the inside of the ferules before you epoxy them on some piano tech fifty years from now will bless you!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> ~  Tom McNeil  ~</DIV> <DIV>Vermont Piano Restorations                        </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/11/2006 8:33:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jonpage@comcast.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Would I be better off searching for the two-piece set replacement?<BR>Or use Marine-Tex epoxy to 'fit' the tenon to the ferrule and plug<BR>the old post hole to secure with longer screws.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>