Toes of Steel (Modified by Kent Swafford)

[Dave Davis]

Nice job, Bill.  

Dave Davis

--- Bill Ballard <yardbird@vermontel.net> wrote:
> At 9:02 AM +0100 1/12/04, Richard Brekne wrote:
> >Bill.. Not meaning to put down the obvious
> creativity here... but dont they
> >sell casters mounted on steel runners that dont
> raise the piano up more then a
> >mm or two over there ?
> 
> Sure they do, and the piano could have been set unto
> any of them. But 
> the challenge is in tying the piano down to these
> trucks and dollies. 
> With a (approx.) 14" depth, the piano is very tippy,
> whether it's 
> sitting on the floor on on these frames. The
> strongest part of the 
> piano to tie to is the side panels, being nice
> large, rigid 
> rectangles. The bottom edge of the soundboard liner
> is pretty flimsy. 
> As far as the backposts, it would have to be the
> corner ones. That's 
> still only tying in at the back. In the front,
> things again are very 
> flimsy.
> 
> Looking at the Jansen catalog
> (http:/www.pljansen.com), it's 
> difficult to say how any of these would have worked,
> and what the 
> necessary modifications would have been without
> actually having them 
> on hand and being prepared to shipped them back if
> they were 
> unworkable. None of them want to tie into the sides.
> Remember, this 
> is a piano which was never designed for toe blocks
> and was meant to 
> be dragged into place by the wall of the living room
> and never moved 
> again.
> 
> >Seems like a lot of work to go to to construct your
> own design for one piano.
> 
> This is was the piano which they were donated
> whether or not it was 
> up to "school-board code". With a slim budget all
> around and the low 
> cost of materials and the donated labor (3 hours of
> my labor and I 
> don't know the other guy's time  for torch-cutting
> and arc-welding), 
> it was the "appropriate technology". Call it cussed
> Yankee 
> individualism. <g>
> 
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> 
> "No, Please wait, you're all individuals" Brain
> Cohen, exasperated
> "Yes, we're all individuals"  the throng assembled
> in the street          
>                  below his window, in unison
> "I'm not..."  Lone dissenter.
>      ...........Monty Python's "Life of Brian"
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