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  • 1.  Replacement Casters for 50-y-o Yamaha P202

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 04-21-2022 08:49
    I rescued this piano from an elementary school. It's still a solid piano, but got put on a tubular-frame vertical dolly (and the casters ditched).

    What's the no-fuss-no-muss, wham-bam-thank-you way to get a new set of casters in place. Worse come to worse, I could just fill in the cut-out wells with pinblock stock, and install normal 7/16"-stem double-wheel casters.
    P202 caster sockets


    Has anyone else done this? (Especially considering that these models originally had useless small-dia. steel casters.)

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    William Ballard RPT
    WBPS
    Saxtons River VT
    802-869-9107

    "Our lives contain a thousand springs
    and dies if one be gone
    Strange that a harp of a thousand strings
    should keep in tune so long."
    ...........Dr. Watts, "The Continental Harmony,1774
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  • 2.  RE: Replacement Casters for 50-y-o Yamaha P202

    Posted 04-21-2022 09:05
    I've replace the small caster with larger double rubber casters. Attached via plates. I placed the original casters in a box and stored them inside the piano. Whenever you replace something, archive the OEM parts with the piano. Especially true for player installations, do not discard the trapwork!  When I place a grand on a truck, I archive the casters in a box or bag and place them on the shelf above the bass leg.  Think of the next guy... it might be you.

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    Jon Page
    mailto:jonpage@comcast.net
    http://www.pianocapecod.com
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