Baldwin caster socket question

[kam544@gbronline.com]

>Hi Joe,
>             The Hamilton was spec'ed for Darnell castors...
>Regards Roger
>
>At 10:38 AM 10/6/02 -0700, Joseph Garrett wrote:
>
>>....As an aside, I have had very poor luck with the "cheaper" sets 
>>of casters,
that are readily available...

I am surprised at both of these statements as it runs so contrary to 
my own experience

Roger, I do not understand your abbreviation "spec'ed", but your 
sentence seems to imply Hamilton was made to use only Darnell type 
casters unless someone was trying to save some money.

I also have to infer the Hamiltons that are being discussed are the 
Studio size pianos in order to make the following comments:

I have yet to do caster work on any Hamilton Studio piano in 23 years 
that ever used Darnell castors, only the university style casters I 
referenced in an earlier post. To support this I have at least 40 
Hamilton Studios and another 67 Baldwin Studios in my dbase, many of 
which I service annually.

And Joe, since you did not qualify what constitutes a cheaper set, I 
can't imagine the university style caster being considered a cheap 
caster, unless your reference is only in comparing the price of it as 
opposed to the Darnell caster.

Darnell casters are definitely a quality caster, and I have had 
occassion to  install those as well, but not customarily in 
situations where they were not originally intended.

Sincerely,

Keith McGavern
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA