Paul, I have never used a clamp with my tilter. I slip it under and pull it back for repairs, then up we go to set it up and you keep a hand on the top of the piano and let it go over onto its castors. Is this something that is suppose to be dangerous and difficult? I have never had a problem except for the time I forgot that I hadn't installed the bottom board...a quick recovery saved the day... David Ilvedson, RPT Date sent: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:36:40 -0700 From: "Paul S. Larudee" <larudee@pacbell.net> To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: APSCO portable piano tilter Send reply to: pianotech@ptg.org > List, > > I finally bit the bullet and bought a portable piano tilter from APSCO a > couple of months ago because I'm tired of the acrobatics I have to do in > my van when I take my larger one from Schaff to a job site. Used it for > the first time last week, and it's great except that it comes with two > clamps which are supposed to be used to lock the tilter to the frame > posts. > > I tried every conceivable way that I could think of to use those clamps, > without success. For the information of those who don't have one, the > clamps are 1/2" threaded steel rods about 8" long with a small plate > roughly 1" x 2" welded on one end in a plane perpendicular to the axis > of the rod. A piece of angle iron of roughly the same size slides > loosely along the rod by means of a hole in one arm of the angle. > Finally, a large wing nut screws onto the free end of the rod. > > The clamp is clearly designed so that the welded plate gets braced on a > post while the angle iron fastens onto the tilter and the wing nut > tightens it in place. Problem is I can't figure out any way to make the > angle iron fasten anywhere and tighten the nut. I can of course bypass > the problem by not using the clamps, which is what I did on this job, > and use straps instead. If there is a right way to use them, however, I > would be interested to know. > > It is almost impossible to respond to this unless you own one of these > things, because of all the dimensions of the parts and the way they fit > together (or don't). Anybody got one and had to deal with this? > > Thanks. > > Paul S. Larudee, RPT > Richmond, CA > David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA ilvey@jps.net
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