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<div>Hi Barbara,</div>
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<div>A truck is the safest thing for protecting the legs. Short of that, individual leg dollies (cast iron leg-cups with three or four good rubber casters each) are a significant improvement over most original equipment casters. (Don't have a catalog with me at the moment, so you'll have to seek out that info.)</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Alan E.</div>
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From: piano57@insightbb.com<br>
To: caut@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 9:01 PM<br>
Subject: [CAUT] grand casters<br>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings all,</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm looking for a recommendation for replacement of the original casters for a <SPAN class=correction id="">Steinway</SPAN> A that occasionally (not often) gets moved back and forth as much as 15 feet on a wood floor in a church. The music director isn't crazy about using a stage truck and I don't want to replace the legs to fit new casters, or, for that matter, replace legs because they've been broken.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Would just having some good double wheel rubber casters do the job? Any other suggestions? Please be specific--as in catalog and part number.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or should I just talk him into a truck and use wedges under the truck to support the legs as I've done for a piano on a stage. Are there any other truck <SPAN class=correction id="">vs</SPAN>. caster opinions/theories I need to know about? </FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, <SPAN class=correction id="">RPT</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>near Peoria, Illinois</FONT></div>
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