Cheap swivel casters/wheels?
Existential Angst
Man, decent ones seem to wanna break the bank, HF stuff is unusable....
They have a blue 99c caster, very nice initially, until the soft wheels
distort into g-d triangles.....
Iny places that will sell small quan of decent stuff at decent prices?
I will eventually be buying larger Qs -- would a larger wholesale/oem house
give me wholesale prices for "prototype Qs", toward the end of a larger
order? Yeah, always beggin...
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RBnDFW
I feel you pain. I was in the local HF last night and they had not one
cast-iron-wheeled caster, all were plastic of some sort or another.
I need about 5 sets of 3" steel or iron wheel casters.
bj
http://www.surpluscenter.com/wheels.asp?UID=3516012609581129&catname=wheels
Bruce
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I got mine from the hardware store. HF around here has had the steel
wheeled ones on the shelf, they looked OK, haven't actually used any,
though.
Stan
Too_Many_Tools
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Good casters cost real money for a reason...because good casters take
effort and material to make.
Compare a good caster to a cheap caster...the difference in quality is
easily detected.
What are you putting these casters on?
TMT
Roger Shoaf
"Existential Angst" <UNfi...@UNoptonline.net> wrote in message
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How about getting one of these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=38970 and
then use it's wheels?
These are pretty good quality and are rated for 250lbs each.
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Roger Shoaf
About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.
Existential Angst
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> Check here.
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> http://www.surpluscenter.com/wheels.asp?UID=3516012609581129&catname=wheels
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Excellent, thank you. *Real* casters, at HF prices, mebbe even better.
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Existential Angst
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Tool cart-type ditty, only 50-75# per wheel, max 2" wheel. Nothing super
duty, but the things should roll and swivel, ferchrissakes.... :)
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TMT
Existential Angst
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>> Awl --
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>> Man, decent ones seem to wanna break the bank, HF stuff is unusable....
>> They have a blue 99c caster, very nice initially, until the soft wheels
>> distort into g-d triangles.....
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>> Iny places that will sell small quan of decent stuff at decent prices?
>>
>> I will eventually be buying larger Qs -- would a larger wholesale/oem
> house
>> give me wholesale prices for "prototype Qs", toward the end of a larger
>> order? Yeah, always beggin...
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>> EA
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> How about getting one of these:
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=38970
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> then use it's wheels?
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> These are pretty good quality and are rated for 250lbs each.
Bigger than what I need -- I'm in the 1.5" ballpark, 75# per wheel.
But, it is a good idea, and indeed, for what you would pay at HD for effing
casters, you would come out ahead this way.
I had this same idea some time ago, when I thought I might need these sized
wheels. Sometimes Nat. Wholesale Liq has these dollies at this $15 price.
Then, with the leftover wood, you can make a small picket fence or sumpn....
:)
Incredible, how that works, eh? Right in line with: cheaper to buy new
than to fix..... which in my mind is a major zeitgeist-ical factor in this
whole environmental/overpopulation affair.
If we took the responsibility to fix shit as an *obligation*, instead of the
mad mad mad dash to frantically produce new shit, we'd likely find this to
be an "automatic limiter" in terms of wanton expansion, crazed
Ponzi/cancer-like economic "growth".
Our species has been oft-referred to as a cancer.
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Too_Many_Tools
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Okay...light duty stuff.
Are you sure that you don't want to go with a larger weight capacity?
My tool carts frequently carry more weight than that...yours
frequently will too.
On my carts I use a minimum of 200 lb per wheel and the larger the
wheel the better. I used to use 3" hard rubber casters for shop
use...big expensive mistake that almost cost me big when a cheap
caster failed and the load shifted. If I had not been able to catch
and support the hundreds of pounds load, it would have fallen on me.
Again thinking of your safety here.
As has been noted, Surpluscenter is a good place for casters but
consider shipping costs before buying.
In my experience, the local stores that service the ag/ranching
industry will have the best prices...farmers and ranchers expect
equipment to perform in challenging conditions.
On the welding boards, they highly recommend a store named Tractor
Supply Compay (TSC) for casters along with welders...you might want to
look them up or a similar store near you to avoid the shipping
charges.
TMT
Too_Many_Tools
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Producing new stuff makes companies more money than you or I fixing
the old stuff.
If we owned the companies, we would want everyone to buy new stuff.
And yes...our species is a cancer in the sense of how we affect our
host world.
A trait of a cancer is that it finally kills the host...and then the
cancer dies.
TMT
Steve B
Steve
Too_Many_Tools
> What are you moving? Old shopping cart wheels are decent, and free.
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> Steve
Where are they free?
Any store who owns carts maintains those carts which includes
replacing bad wheels.
I buy a lot of surplus...and have never seen shopping carts for sale.
TMT
RBnDFW
> "Existential Angst" <UNfi...@UNoptonline.net> wrote in message
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>> Awl --
>>
>> Man, decent ones seem to wanna break the bank, HF stuff is unusable....
>> They have a blue 99c caster, very nice initially, until the soft wheels
>> distort into g-d triangles.....
>>
>> Iny places that will sell small quan of decent stuff at decent prices?
>>
>> I will eventually be buying larger Qs -- would a larger wholesale/oem
> house
>> give me wholesale prices for "prototype Qs", toward the end of a larger
>> order? Yeah, always beggin...
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>> EA
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> How about getting one of these:
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=38970 and
> then use it's wheels?
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> These are pretty good quality and are rated for 250lbs each.
I actually looked at those and some others in the store with an eye
toward just the value of the casters.
best deal I found was a while back at a Homier tent sale. They had a
steel engine dolly for $19.95 which had 4 good iron-wheel casters on a
nice welded frame. Casters bolted on.
Haven't seen a Homier sale since.
Existential Angst
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Proly someone bought them all, and is selling the casters for $19.95 ea --
on eBay.
Yeah, buy it now.....
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Existential Angst
Okay...light duty stuff.
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Tractor supply is mentioned now and then even on rcm, another good idea.
Proly not plentiful in the metroNY area, but I'll check it out.
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TMT