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Richard,
<br>I just went through a repair of the identical problem with one of our
D's. The instrument was on an old Colson truck, and even though not
particularly sprung, we bought a new truck (planned to anyway). The
new trucks (from Pianotek) for D's and B's seem to be made of thicker material
and are much more stable, making this sort of problem less likely, I suspect.
I personally would not be inclined to modify the leg-- what if you moved
to a new truck? If you modify anything, think about maybe shimming
the plate the leg sits on. Far less work in the end.
<p>Greg Granoff RPT
<br>Humboldt State University
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<p><br>I have a puzzling, related problem. I have a Steinway B on
a Colson truck. The last time I serviced the piano I noticed that
a fairly sizeable chunk of one of the legs was split off close to the bottom
of the leg. It seems as though the majority of the weight of the
piano rests on the back part of the spade leg because the weight of the
piano pushes down the end of the truck which puts a slight, but still significant
tilt to the end of the truck right where the leg sits on the leg socket.
In other words the bottom of the leg doesn't actually sit flat on the socket
of the truck. Gluing the wood back wouldn't be a problem, but I'm
afraid it would just split again because the angle of the leg socket.
The truck itself is not overly bowed up in the center. In fact I
go to some pains to try to keep the truck flat when I load a piano on a
truck. If the truck isn't flat, it doesn't roll as well. Has
anyone sanded the bottom of the leg to match the 2 or 3 degree angle that
the weight of the piano forces onto the truck? Any other solutions?
Right now the leg is stable. I don't think there's any danger of
any more splittling.
<p>Richard West, U of NE
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