For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

I either buy them from someplace like harborfreight since you can
sometimes buy a complete dolly cheaper than buying the wheels or my
local farm and fleet or building supply places. The castors and wheels
are usually over by the handcarts and welding supplies.

Look Here

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...c hallpartial

I prefer getting them from Harbor Freight. The local store carries a
variety of sizes (from small plastic ones to large cast iron ones) and puts
them on sale all the time.

"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
ups.com...
For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

Too_Many_Tools wrote:

For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

WW Graingers

Dave

Sun, Dec 18, 2005, 11:31am (EST-3)
(Too_Many_Tools) doth ask - about wheels:
snippity

Questions like this, just kinda puzzle me. I mean, I have no
problem finding casters/wheels. for the few projects I use them on. The
tools I have on stands, I don't have them wheeled, I just shuffle them
from one place to another - less hassle than messing with wheels.

But, as for where to get them - plenty easy to find. Ace Hardware,
Lowes, Wally Worls, Harbor Freight, Northern Tools, I think some of the
auto parts stores have some, I think I saw some n a welding supply
store. You could even buy a cart and salvage wheels, if nothing else.
If you've got a welder, no biggie to cobble up some on your own. But,
of course, there-s always on-line shopping - google is simple enough to
use. Hell, even my mother could probably answer this one.



JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear". What do you
"know"?.
- Granny Weatherwax

try here

http://www.leevalley.com/home/Search.aspx?c=1&action=n

bently
"AL" wrote in message
...
I prefer getting them from Harbor Freight. The local store carries a
variety of sizes (from small plastic ones to large cast iron ones) and puts
them on sale all the time.

"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
ups.com...
For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
ups.com...
For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT


I use shopping cart wheels for a lot of stuff. There are enough derelict
ones that are in flood ditches, and that have been hit by cars, so you're
not REALLY taking something of value from the markets.

I have found some really good ones at yard sales, but only occasionally.

If I want the real deal, sometimes I just have to go to the local caster
place, but even then, they have different grades, and I can get something
better than I need for not too much. If it's a really good piece of
equipment, or it has to work just right, you can't beat good wheels.

Ebay?

Just learn about them, and when you see them, you know if they are a deal or
not.

Steve

Try the dumpster behind your local hospital. They are always getting
rid of equipment with 6" plus wheels. Most are not going to take a real
heavy load, but are quality items.

Chuck P.

Grizzly has a bunch - but you might need to get a paper catalog - their
website is sort of hard to search if you don't have the catalog number
(in my experience). I found some brand new, good-quality, smaller (3")
casters on ebay for cheaper than I could find them anywhere else, so
you might check there.
Andy

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:49:40 GMT, MOP CAP
wrote:

Try the dumpster behind your local hospital. They are always getting
rid of equipment with 6" plus wheels. Most are not going to take a real
heavy load, but are quality items.

Chuck P.

Indeed. My Airco PhaseArc mig is on gurney wheels.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

"Andy" wrote in message
oups.com...
Grizzly has a bunch - but you might need to get a paper catalog - their
website is sort of hard to search if you don't have the catalog number
(in my experience). I found some brand new, good-quality, smaller (3")
casters on ebay for cheaper than I could find them anywhere else, so
you might check there.
Andy

You can always go to the index feature at Grizzly. That is a virtual copy of
the paper catalog.

Just find a machine or something. Then click on more information. Someplace
on the page will be catalog page and/or index button. Click it and you will
be there. Easiest thing to do is just look it up in the index.

http://www.grizzly.com/catalog/2005/Main/224

By clicking on wheels in the index, yo get the above page. there are several
pages of wheels and casters.

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:49:40 GMT, MOP CAP
wrote:

Try the dumpster behind your local hospital. They are always getting
rid of equipment with 6" plus wheels. Most are not going to take a real
heavy load, but are quality items.


Somehow the dumpster of a local hospital is the last place I'd really
want to be looking for anything. [I know, all the bio-hazards are suposed
to be taken care of elsewhere].



+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

For stationary power tools I want mobile I wait for this
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...3&filter=92051
to go on sale like it is right now for $40.

Otherwise HF, yard sales, goodwill/secondhand shops, etc.

For large wheels consider kiddie bikes & trikes.

Art

"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
ups.com...
For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

Too_Many_Tools wrote in message
ups.com...
For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?
http://www.surpluscenter.com/ they have large and heavy duty casters

"J T" wrote in message
...
Sun, Dec 18, 2005, 11:31am (EST-3)
(Too_Many_Tools) doth ask - about wheels:
snippity

Questions like this, just kinda puzzle me. I mean, I have no
problem finding casters/wheels. for the few projects I use them on. The
tools I have on stands, I don't have them wheeled, I just shuffle them
from one place to another - less hassle than messing with wheels.

But, as for where to get them - plenty easy to find. Ace Hardware,
Lowes, Wally Worls, Harbor Freight, Northern Tools, I think some of the
auto parts stores have some, I think I saw some n a welding supply
store. You could even buy a cart and salvage wheels, if nothing else.
If you've got a welder, no biggie to cobble up some on your own. But,
of course, there-s always on-line shopping - google is simple enough to
use. Hell, even my mother could probably answer this one.



Amen. The "where do I find..." posts are really pretty annoying when it is
obvious that even the most basic of searches hasn't been attempted. Almost
as annoying are those posts from people too insecure to go out an actually
buy something for $10.00 without fist checking with everyone else for "their
experience". But - it's life. These are just pet peeves.

--

-Mike-

I have a collection of wheels and casters, mostly picked up in yard sales.
I have way more than I will ever use. I could quit collecting them if I
wanted, so I am not addicted.

From time to time, I have used shopping cart wheels. They're pretty good
for lighter stuff. My local scrap yard sells them rather cheeply--they're
from carts that got run over.

Ciao,
David Todtman

I've gotten new ones from some of the big box home-improvement joints,
the iron ones on my VW engine dolly came from a now-defunct chain.
These are supposed to be good for 1000 lbs each. Since they live on a
concrete floor, I don't worry about wheel marks. I've seen some large
ones at the local True Value, too, solid rubber. Ace had some smaller
ones, 3" or so. One of the local tool stores that handles import stuff
as well as Dewalt and Milwaukee has a large assortment of iron and
rubber-tired castors, all sizes up to 12". Retail prices, though.

Surplus Center in Lincoln, NE had a lot of them in their store, more
than made it into their catalog. Just wish they were closer instead of
having to limit my trips to when I go through there a couple of times a
year.

Stan

In article . com,
"Too_Many_Tools" wrote:

For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

I go to RH Brown in Seattle and check their discount bins.
I like Colson casters for important projects.
Darnell would be a second choice.

--
"I love deadlines, especially the wooshing sound they make as
they fly by" - Douglas Adams

Thanks Art! I just got done swearing up a storm trying to move my table saw
on its flimsy legs with so called casters/wheels on it. I end up dragging
the darn thing across the floor because the caster/wheel system is so weak.

"Wood Butcher" wrote in message
...
For stationary power tools I want mobile I wait for this
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...3&filter=92051
to go on sale like it is right now for $40.

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:31:41 -0800, Too_Many_Tools wrote:

For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?
(clipped)
Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

Kitt Tools

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:52:41 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler wrote
(in article ):

surpluscenter.com


For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...eId=6970&N=120.

harvey

"Bruce" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:52:41 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler wrote
(in article ):

surpluscenter.com


For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?

In the surplus market, where do you like to go buy your wheels and
casters?

An example....I am currently designing some carts for some welders
that I recently purchased. I am looking for LARGE (8-12") WIDE (2"+)
wheels to use. I also want these wheels to be nonpneumatic so the curse
of slowly leaking tires are a nonproblem. The only new wheels I see are
the punctureproof wheels for wheelbarrows...with a significant price to
match. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TMT

Too_Many_Tools wrote:
For many (if not most) of my tools, I have them (or will have them)
mobile.

This means being always on the lookout for wheels and casters.

Where do you find the ones that you use to make your tools, carts and
dollies mobile?



snip


I can't believe no one's mentioned:

www.mcmaster.com

Two thousand five hundred ninety one different types of casters. They
carry a mind-boggling array of industrial products.


thanks,

K. Gringioni.