New Wurly Day!

[bcatchings]

Today my brother and I got on the road at 5am and drove from Baton Rouge, LA to Corinth, MS and back home again. 826 miles give or take a few and nearly 14 hours of driving, for what you ask? For this! A Wulitzer 270. All original. Legs and bench too! Yeah she has 5 dead keys and though I've not opened it yet I believe they're just broken reeds from the way they feel but in spite of the missing notes she still sounds INCREDIBLE. I didn't think anything sounded as sweet as that 140B I've been fixing up. Boy was I wrong.

[vanceinatlance]

Congrats on your new piano, it looks to be in really nice condition! Those don't show up every day. It's good to hear others are crazy enough to drive long distances for these treasures!

[pianotuner steveo]

Someday, if you get a chance, could you please post a photo of the end of the pedal rod that connects to the bottom of the piano? I have one of these, but I can not connect the pedal. It does not reach. I have tried explaining this problem to Morelock's but they do not understand what I am saying. The seller of course had "no idea" what I was talking about.

Can I ask how much the piano was?

[bcatchings]

Thanks guys! I'm very stoked about this. Here are the goods Steve. I imagine what you're missing is this little nut on the end of the sustain rod. It catches at the very top and screws onto the post under the 270. If you had to I believe you could make one with a properly threaded nut, the right size washer and some glue that works for metal. Especially since the mechanism only pushes on the sustain post. As for the last question we got it for $250. Maybe it was because it was the middle of nowhere (seriously, dirt roads, cornfields and everything) and no one plays it. Maybe it's full of body parts. Not sure why but yeah very lucky on this end. I didn't even blink at the 5 dead keys.

[voltergeist]

Looks great!  I'm jealous.

[sean]

SteveO,

Take a thread gauge to the upper stubby end sticking out and you can probably find a flare nut to fit.

In your friendly hardware store, at the end of the plumbing aisle, there is usually a section of fittings for copper tubing (for refrigerator, destupidifier, sink, or toilet hookups).

You might get really lucky and find a flare nut that fits both the rod diameter and the threads too.

If the lower rod already has a threaded hole for a retaining screw, then whoohoo!  Done.

Sean

[pianotuner steveo]

Those pictures helped a lot! The top of the pedal is the same as mine, but the piece sticking out of the bottom of the piano is missing (upper stubby end) from my piano. ( Not the nut on the pedal rod)

The pedal rod does not reach into the piano.

I may just bring the pedal to the hardware store. I need to adapt from that nut to the piece in the piano that I assume is the same thread size as the standard 200 cable end.

[cinnanon]

Interesting little sustain pedal connection.

Almost like a compression fitting nut (in the sense of the hex nut) in conjunction with a brass male-female standoff.

I assume the nut is attached to the pedal rod? and the piece you are missing (steveo) is the standoff I described?
Look on mcmaster-carr for brass male-female standoffs. They look like this.

[pianotuner steveo]

Yeah, I guess that is what I need,but I have no idea what the thread sizes are.

[pianotuner steveo]

$250, wow!

I got mine for a steal and it was a lot more than that, plus it was shipped. I think $250 was the shipping charge.

Can't complain, I got my share of free and $40-$50 Wurlitzers before that one.

[bcatchings]

Yeah I figured for that price it was well worth the drive and the gas. This is by far the least I've paid for an EP except for the free 88 key Rhodes that my father-in-law found at a high school in Arkansas. They just gave it to him and he handed it straight to me. Other than that it's been an expensive addiction.

[pianotuner steveo]

BTW, this pedal (like other Wurlis) pulls down on the sustain mech, it does not push up like in a Rhodes. If it simply pushed up, it would have been an easy fix.

I tried a hardware store and then Fastenal today, and out of luck in both places. If anyone knows this part number, I can check at Morelock's, but they had no idea what I was talking about the one time I called them about this.

Nothing at McMaster was short enough, btw

This piece is only about 1" -1 1/4" long

[cinnanon]

The threads on a normal wurly sustain pedal are 1/4"-20 i think?  The threads on the nut look like they're 1/2" size, maybe 1/2"-13?  Do you know if that is the thread size of the nut? The pitch looks finer than 1/2"-13 but I can't tell directly from the picture. I wish I still was at my old job (not really though), I could have CNC'd this out of brass hex in about 10 minutes.

[cinnanon]

You can try a piece of 1/2"-13 all-thread (or whatever the nut thread size is), cut it to length, drill and tap a 1/4"-20 hole in it for now. That should work if you have the means.

[pianotuner steveo]

No, I have no way to do that, but thanks.

The female end is 1/4"

Not sure what the male end is. 1/2" may be right.

[voltergeist]

Steveo, that's something I could machine for you, if you're able to get photos and dimensions of the part.

[pianotuner steveo]

Well,I can't give you photos and dimensions, because I don't have the part!

lol

Thanks, though.

Bcatchings has the part...