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...
--
EA

Existential Angst wrote:
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...

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.

Check here.

http://www.surpluscenter.com/wheels....catname=wheels


Bruce


"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...
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...
--
EA

On Jan 26, 8:57*am, RBnDFW wrote:
Existential Angst wrote:
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...

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.

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

On Jan 26, 8:36*am, "Existential Angst"
wrote:
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...
--
EA

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

"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...
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...
--
EA



How about getting one of these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=38970 and
then use it's wheels?

These are pretty good quality and are rated for 250lbs each.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

"bj" wrote in message
...
Check here.

http://www.surpluscenter.com/wheels....catname=wheels


Excellent, thank you. *Real* casters, at HF prices, mebbe even better.
--
EA


Bruce


"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...
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...
--
EA

"Roger Shoaf" wrote in message
...

"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...
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...
--
EA



How about getting one of these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=38970
and
then use it's wheels?

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 **** as an *obligation*, instead of the
mad mad mad dash to frantically produce new ****, 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.
--
EA



--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube,
then
they come up with this striped stuff.

On Jan 26, 2:57*pm, "Existential Angst"
wrote:
"Roger Shoaf" wrote in message

...







"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...
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...
--
EA

How about getting one of these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=38970
and
then use it's wheels?

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 **** as an *obligation*, instead of the
mad mad mad dash to frantically produce new ****, 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.
--
EA





--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube,
then
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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

What are you moving? Old shopping cart wheels are decent, and free.

Steve

On Jan 26, 4:40*pm, "Steve B" wrote:
What are you moving? *Old shopping cart wheels are decent, and free.

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

Roger Shoaf wrote:
"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...
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...
--
EA



How about getting one of these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=38970 and
then use it's wheels?

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.

"RBnDFW" wrote in message
...
Roger Shoaf wrote:
"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...
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...
--
EA



How about getting one of these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=38970
and
then use it's wheels?

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.

Proly someone bought them all, and is selling the casters for $19.95 ea --
on eBay.
Yeah, buy it now.....
--
EA