Doug B
Shy Tot
Having just renewed the casters on my jointer I thought I'd share a few photos I'd posted on Instagram as they may be of interest.
The casters I've used are these from Rutlands http://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+woodworkin ... a+m_dk2054. Obviously I wait till they have them on offer with free postage if possible.
I first used them on a mobile base I made for my thicknesser a few years back & was really impressed with how easily the machine moved on them compared with my other machines on casters.
So since making that base I've been gradually changing my other casters over to these & the last machine that needed doing was my jointer which, as it's is so heavy, I decided my best option was to attach the casters to some 10mm plate here it is being cut to length.
Next the scale was removed with flap wheel in a grinder.
After drilling the bolt holes the casters were attached.
& given another clean up
Then sprayed & left to dry for a while
These are the original casters that I fitted to the jointer more years ago than I care to remember, I'd also forgotten just how heavy this was resorting to an 8' piece of CLS to lever the thing up & choc
With the new ones on movement is much easier with the added bonus that these lock.
As I said at the start, just posted incase it was of interest to anyone, definitely not a how to as I'm sure the H&S police wouldn't be happy with how I do things, but then again I'm not asking them to be.
Cheers, Doug.
The casters I've used are these from Rutlands http://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+woodworkin ... a+m_dk2054. Obviously I wait till they have them on offer with free postage if possible.
I first used them on a mobile base I made for my thicknesser a few years back & was really impressed with how easily the machine moved on them compared with my other machines on casters.
So since making that base I've been gradually changing my other casters over to these & the last machine that needed doing was my jointer which, as it's is so heavy, I decided my best option was to attach the casters to some 10mm plate here it is being cut to length.
Next the scale was removed with flap wheel in a grinder.
After drilling the bolt holes the casters were attached.
& given another clean up
Then sprayed & left to dry for a while
These are the original casters that I fitted to the jointer more years ago than I care to remember, I'd also forgotten just how heavy this was resorting to an 8' piece of CLS to lever the thing up & choc
With the new ones on movement is much easier with the added bonus that these lock.
As I said at the start, just posted incase it was of interest to anyone, definitely not a how to as I'm sure the H&S police wouldn't be happy with how I do things, but then again I'm not asking them to be.
Cheers, Doug.
but as I said at the end I'm certainly not suggesting anyone does as I did, I'm merely showing how I went about solving a problem.
