Rich Grise wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:35:49 +0000, wrace wrote:


Speaking of casters. In my ongoing quest to put almost everything on wheels,
the 20ton floor standing H press is the next likely target. It is an awkward
beast to muscle around when I need to reconfigure the shop. It has angle
iron sticking out each side for legs (like most commercial built H presses).
Any reason I couldn't put a 4" caster on each corner?

It would of course make it easier to move around, but I wonder how the
casters would affect it when in actual use? Seems like the usual forces for
an H press are pretty much contained within the structure on a pretty much
vertical basis, unless you are really reefing on the jack handle I
suppose... in which case you are probably not using the right tool for the
job?

Anybody have their H press on casters? Does it work ok?

Wayne


Along with all of the other answers, I'd add that I'd "recess" the
casters, i.e., mount them on sort of an L-bracket, so that you only have
to raise the base of the press maybe 1/4" - 1/2", rather than 4 or 5
inches.

________ BASE _________
\_/ | OF | \_/
/ . \ | PRESS | / . \
\ _ / ------------------------ \ _ /
------------------------------------------------- floor

I dunno, at 6'3" I'd like to raise mine a little.