<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 1, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Cy Shuster wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">I don't understand the warning. Couldn't a shop put as much wear on them as a church? Or are they meant for professionals, and not the public?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">--Cy--</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I think you nailed it. Wear isn't the issue. In a shop the technician is aware of how they might behave. The public no so much. One could get into a legal situation if something bad happened because of the use of the three wheel trucks, and thus the warning.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>We have an early 70's D here with double rubber casters, and I'm fairly certain another from around the same time at a church I tune for has them as well. I assume they were original equipment. They're still in the Steinway Parts Price list.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There were rubber casters on the SD-10 at my church (I think they were singles, though). I warned them about what could happen. When one of the caster sockets tore out of the leg, they finally ordered a truck before somebody got hurt.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I know its a great deal more expensive, but would they not consider the Grand Transporter?</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>