In a moment of folly, after the boiler had been serviced, I decided to put small wheels on the 8ft tall boiler cabinet UGH! I tried appliance rollers, but they were too wide. I could only buy small 20mm dia castors which swivel, from Toolstation, so had to fabricate locking collars for the castors to fix the direction. So I did this and mounted them on blocks of wood and then into the cabinet. We had to get the cabinet laid out flat, Mrs Capitol is very strong, all 110lbs of her.. Because the floor around the boiler is uneven, I had to use packing pieces under the castors for height adjustment. I measured 6 times and mounted the castors, yes you guessed right, the cabinet was 3mm too tall to go back in. So back to a tilted cabinet and remove 3mm of the packing pieces with screws which were too tight and try again. At this point the dummer plugs holding the top cabinet to the lower cabinet sheared. Bugger. I really appreciated the 50n years of stock in my crap collection! Any way, we righted the cabinet and pushed it back into position. It wouldn't go. Turns out I'd fitted the bottom cladding with zero tolerance 40 years ago and the new base of the cabinet was 2mm wider than the original so the adjacent cladding fouled. Back to the bandsaw and the cladding is now 3mm shorter and the cabinet fits. We finally put the doors back on today and restacked the cupboards. Just fitting the wheels we reckon took a total of 20 hours mostly spent at floor level. DIY is fun?
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6 years ago