Replacement Parker Knoll Castor

[polygonum]

Mother's sofa has a broken castor. As she is a fair distance away, she posted the broken castor to me so I could try to get a replacement.

Parker Knoll as were are no more, wondering if anyone has any bright ideas what is the best approach? Have searched around - eBay, Amazon, web, anywhere I could think - nothing like them yet.

From what I received it is not entirely clear what the whole thing should be like. I imagine that a standard prong thing should be there - which goes into a socket on the sofa - but I could be wrong.

[Robin]

Surprised me a I know someone who bought PK a year or so back. And

claim the heritage. Do they deny all knowledge of old stuff or have they gone out of business?

And FWIW the photo made me wonder if it was definitely a castor rather than a fixed foot.

[Steve Firth]

OTOH if you look here, I think you can see that your mother's furniture used Shepherd castors, and there's an exact match on this page. Now all you need to work out is what sort of fitting is needed.

[Steve Firth]

Generally it is easier to replace all four castors than to find an exact match.

[polygonum]

Well - reading around, people are none-too-impressed by the phoenix company's support of older products so I have not (so far) contacted them.

I did ask her - and she repeated that it was a castor. But blowed if I can see how it fits as clearly some bits are missing from what I have got. But the sloping "side" does look ever so like some castors - a sort of stripped-out, thinned down version of the old Shepherd ones.

Was rather hoping someone would, as you almost did, make an appropriate suggestion.

[polygonum]

That is what I am beginning to believe.

[F Murtz]

[polygonum]

UK suppliers and it looks possible that it is one of their products. (Earlier searches had kept coming up with significantly different models.) Thanks.

[Robin]

I am sorry I failed to get the cigar ;)

Any better if I suggest you ask the Frederick Parker Foundation if they can help you identify just what you need? (A surprisingly interesting load of stuff if you happen to be in the LMU building in Whitechapel.)

[polygonum]

Sorry - my response didn't read how it sounded in my head!

Very interesting - am looking now.

[Nick Odell]

I missed the beginning of this so apologies if I'm repeating someone else's comments. I had a similar problem identifying then obtaining castors for a set of timpani but found what I needed at

Nick

[polygonum]

Ha! That is who I have emailed only a few minutes ago. Thanks.

[polygonum]

They do have lots - but under the Shepherd name they only have the standard brown paint ones. Think I Steve Firth and I have both found a source - hoping they have some in stock.

[The Natural Philosopher]

parker-bollocks chair.

[The Natural Philosopher]

me mum had the push in sort. 'grip neck' blah blah

[fred]

Thats a glide not a castor. Replace the four of them.

[fred]

Thats a glide not a castor

[Stephen Mawson]

Lyn-Plan do refurbishment of Parker-Knoll chairs, including frames etc not just the upholstery. They replaced a broken castor on a sofa they refurbished for us.

Stephen

[Bob Eager]

replacements.

They just pull out of the socket (the vertical pin on the other part not shown) and you push the new one in.

[kendgltd]

I've replaced my Parker Knoll castors - which had broken with Kenrick Sheph erd castors from Castors UK - Speak to a guy named Russ who was very helpfu l to me. Don't but the cheap plastic double wheel ones - make sure they ar e the Metal Kenrick Shepherd items which are all made in the UK not in the far East.

Best of luck

Ken