Adding castors to table legs

I have a very heavy large rubberwood (whatever that is) dining table.

To use it to it's full capacity (6 seater), I have to move it away from the wall.

It's a 2 man job as it is very heavy. My wife cannot even lift one end, never mind attempt to move it.

I am toying with adding castors or something the the bottom of each leg to enable it to be moved easily when needed.

Is this feasible or is there any reason I should not contemplate this?

The castors / wheels would have to be quite strong because of the weight of the table!

Steve.......

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dog-man
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I suppose it depends on what sort of base the legs have . Are they square at the bottom with no fancy bits ? You can get castors with square screw on plates or you can also get ones that have a socket part that you tap in to a predrilled hole and then slot the castor part in to . Woodfit have them on their website but there will be plenty other outlets .Do a Google for them .

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Stuart B

The legs are large and square.

In fact, they are the chunkiest table legs I have personally ever seen!

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dog-man

I assume that Rubberwood can take being drilled into or hold any screws without crumbling?

I have never come across rubberwood until we purchased this table. (sheltered life!)

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dog-man

Personally I'd not do it. For a start they'll look horrid. They'll need to lock properly. They'll add to the height of the table. They'll also be vulnerable to snagging and putting a lot of sideways strain on the bottoms of the legs; your table might take it but many wouldn't.

What I would do is make a pair of skates. Provided you can lift one end a few inches you can slip a skate under it and then it'll be on wheels - and when it's where you want it you can take them away again.

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Skipweasel

If it's too heavy to lift onto the skates I suggested, you could always drill a 1/2" hole into one of the inner faces of the legs and use a lever on wheels to lift it onto the skate.

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Skipweasel

Wotcha need is dese mista

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RW

I assume it's the wood of the rubber tree, whose sap produces natural rubber.

Owain

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Owain

AIUI; 'rubber wood' is a manufactured board formed from the wood of the rubber tree. The timber is similar to maple (from which maple-syrup' is extracted. The practise of extracting rubber sap cause the rubber tree to become gnarled and does not produce straight trees from which long and straight boards may be sawn. Rubber trees, AIUI, have a finite economic life and need grubbing up and to be replaced every so often Somebody realised that if the gnarled rubber trees were cut into smallish but right-prism chunks then the chunks could be laminated (glued) together to produce a timber with the properties (more or less). This is an industrial scale process and can#t be 'done' in the average workshop. Rubberwood tends to be used in 'chunky' furniture such as tabels, sideboards etc. It is becoming a major asset to countries such as Malaysia who can turn a 'waste product' into functional boards

Form my experience you'd be better served by utilising the 'slippery pads' sold by many mail-order / on-line retailers. These are availabe in circular or rectanglur fromt in many sizes. They fir under the table legs and consist of a teflon(?) slippery face (down) and a high-mu upper face. . Once lifted then the heavy furniture can easily be moved by one person. I've purchased several sets over many years from different manufacturers.

The sliipery-slidey things are low profile and very strong.

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Brian Sharrock

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