Attaching adjustable feet to benches and cabinets

[Grahamshed]

Hi
I have several cabinets ( and a future bench ) on 4 inch castors so I can move them around the workshop if I need to but parts of the floor slope so I also want to use adjustable feet that will lift the wheels off the floor and level up the worktop.
Axi have ones with brackets that screw to the sides or legs which look good but they also have these http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-axminster-adjustable-machinery-feet-prod864273/ that look very strong.

Has anyone used these ? What would be the usual way of attaching them to cabinets and benches ?

 

[Steve Maskery]

Graham
Those kind of feet are used on some very heavy kit, like computer network cabinets, so I think that they would handle anything we have in our home workshop.

They could be attached to sled feet by pulling in an embedded nut from above, or to the endgrain of legs by hammering them in from below. either way the force on the nut is into the wood, so will be very secure.

S

 

[Grahamshed]

Thanks for that Steve. Think I might give it a try

 

[Steve Maskery]

I've just re-read what I wrote and, for the avoidance of doubt, I meant PULLING from above so that the nuts are on the lower surface.
But then you knew that.
S

 

[Grahamshed]

Indeed I did.

 

[graduate_owner]

The heavy duty ones are not cheap though - about £3.60 each, £14.40 per machine. I just searched on ebay for 16mm threaded rod and nuts, and 80mm diameter nylon rod. You would save about £2 per set of 4 by making them yourself so hardly worthwhile unless you have such bits around the workshop. So I suppose the Axminster kit is the way to go.

K

 

[Giff]

I have just used these on a mobile workbench. I drilled the legs and inserted M12 threaded inserts (20mm). I then re-drilled to the depth of the thread on the foot using a drillslightly over the size of the thread. I do suggest clamping the leg at both sides, I used a vice and F clamp, as when inserting the threaded insert it can split the wood quite easily but is ok once in place.