cracks in rim

[Dean May]

Depends on the size and how burly your lifters are. Use the same number you
would use to put a piano on a skid. For a smallish grand 2 is fine. For a
nine footer I'd use 4.

Dean

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-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Barbara Richmond
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 9:55 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: cracks in rim

Conrad, Dean,

Either way, how many people does it take?

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: cracks in rim


>
>
> Barbara Richmond wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>  No need to apologize.  I've been part of a grand moving team--no, not 
>> just to place the dolly--but, shucks, I must admit, I <am> pretty good at

>> that!  :-)  I can do the pull down, but don't have much to offer on the 
>> lifting end.  It's hard for me to visualize how one inverts the piano. 
>> What do you do? Barbara Richmond
>>
>
> Pretend you're putting it down on a skid and just keep going.
> ;-}
>
> Adequately blanketed, etc.,  you could take it from the skid position on 
> it's side to inverted by using a tilter.
>
>
> -- 
> Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
>

You take the action out, lid off and lid hinges off the rim. Stand it up on 
the side as normal, then tip it on over. Make sure you have appropriate 
padding in place for where it comes down.



First time I saw such cracks I realized that they make them with that way, 
with the outer rim assembled at the end. That means the inner rim must be 
designed to handle all the stress by itself with the outer rim serving 
primarily a cosmetic function.



Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272

Terre Haute IN  47802


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