Jim We have one transporter, and of course its the cats meow. However we are about to make another from a stage dollie. It was free with a piano that came thru the shop and fits several size pianos. Step 1 Remove the casters and mount them opposite there current position the other. Do all 3 arms. SO now stage dollie still roll but looks funny as the arms which usually curve down now curve up. Capische? Step 2. Measure and cut a 3 by 3 piece of steel stock and weld the bottle jack to that. Determine what length that assembly should be and Weld that to the the upside down caster carrier locations and viola.....The shop built trolley. These can fit many sizes of pianos and can be folded up and put outside when not needed. Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom restoration Ronsen Piano hammers Join the Weickert felt Revolution 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 On Dec 8, 2010, at 9:47 PM, jimialeggio wrote: Rethinking trolleys for moving a piano around the shop during a full rebuild. Alright...this is the last time I make one of these...There are just too many rolling contrivances in my shop that are in between jobs, stacked up cluttering the place up. On the plus side, they get the piano at a comfortable height to do belly work, and they move around the shop like a charm. On the negative side, you gotta build the darn thing for each job, then disassemble it ( or trip over it till you get lucky and get a piano that's the same size). Also big on the negative side, is its really hard to do the dead lift necessary to get the piano up onto the trolley...no tilting to make life a little easier. So...what are the other options out there in the small one/two man shop out there?? Jim I Jim Ialeggio grandpianosolutions.com 978- 425-9026 Shirley, MA <P1030224.JPG> = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101209/453aba0b/attachment.htm>
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