Shopping cart wheels/carts
I'm getting ready to make a pipe roller (weld positioner) to do some pipe.
I'm going to use a motor from a bbq pit, and think I can rheostat that down to make it work. I have access to shopping cart wheels all the time, and figure I'll get some and make an alignment jig, and really make my cover 7018 figure 8 to make it look nice. Kinda fudgin' for a 6g certified weldor, but what the heck? This is for sale. And this is going to be less than the 4" in 6g anyway, and I'm not that fast a mover to run a 6g half pipe pass around a short length of 2" pipe. What kind of things do you use shopping cart wheels for? I mean, what WOULD you use them for, if it wasn't illegal to take them? And does that apply to those that have been hit by a '88 Caddy, and are all twisted up? I did take one of the nice metal baskets and use it for a dirt sifter for the garden. The fold up feature works great, too, for dumping the rocks. Steve |
Shopping cart wheels/carts
"Steve B" wrote in message ... ... What kind of things do you use shopping cart wheels for? Steve Nothing. I need wider wheels for things that roll on dirt outdoors, and stronger casters for indoor machinery. I use replacement lawnmower wheels outside and well-used painters' staging casters under the welders. jsw |
Shopping cart wheels/carts
"Steve B" wrote in message ... I'm getting ready to make a pipe roller (weld positioner) to do some pipe. I'm going to use a motor from a bbq pit, and think I can rheostat that down to make it work. I have access to shopping cart wheels all the time, and figure I'll get some and make an alignment jig, and really make my cover 7018 figure 8 to make it look nice. Kinda fudgin' for a 6g certified weldor, but what the heck? This is for sale. And this is going to be less than the 4" in 6g anyway, and I'm not that fast a mover to run a 6g half pipe pass around a short length of 2" pipe. What kind of things do you use shopping cart wheels for? I mean, what WOULD you use them for, if it wasn't illegal to take them? And does that apply to those that have been hit by a '88 Caddy, and are all twisted up? I did take one of the nice metal baskets and use it for a dirt sifter for the garden. The fold up feature works great, too, for dumping the rocks. Steve I've got the bottom half of a shopping trolley that I grabbed from landfill in the early eighties. I use it for pushing heavy stuff around on it used to park a 6cyl engine on for a few years. Surprisingly tough. |
Shopping cart wheels/carts
On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:39:00 -0700
"Steve B" wrote: I'm getting ready to make a pipe roller (weld positioner) to do some pipe. I'm going to use a motor from a bbq pit, and think I can rheostat that down to make it work. snip My Dad made me/us (me the weldor) a roller device using two wheels of some sort of plastic/nylon. It looked good, cradled the work pieces nice and turned smooth just futzing around testing it (rotation by hand). It was made to cradle maybe 2.5 inch thick walled tube that needed a bead welded around the circumference. Problem was that by the time you finished welding all the way around, the metal tube was so hot that the wheels had melted. Snort! seemed obvious after the first go and the wheels where a bit mushy :) Another problem with this design is that weld splatter has a way of attaching itself to the wheels and/or the material in the area of the wheel. Some points to ponder in your design... The best ones we made/used were from old roller-bearings. Just the bearing itself, nothing else. Even those would get so hot that the grease would leak out. But that was easy enough to remedy with a few squirts of oil now and then. Splatter didn't stick to them so bad either. -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
Shopping cart wheels/carts
On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:15:34 -0400
Leon Fisk wrote: snip Bah! The best ones we made/used were from old roller-bearings. Just the This should have said *ball-bearings*, duh! had the right picture in my mind... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
Shopping cart wheels/carts
Used them on my roller tool box. Works better than wheels it came with.
These are the threaded ones. charl |
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