can't find three-wheel casters

My local Loew's and Borg carry them. They're on the shelf beside the other wheels & castors.

-- Mark

Personally I'd rather have one big wheel instead of three small ones. Easier to roll over the occasional pebble, scrap of wood or electrical cord.

-Jack

Three wheeled casters are for extremely heavy and potentially unstable loads. => a piano for example. They're not designed to go over pebbles or scraps of wood. That's not their function.

I'll keep that in mind the next time I use a piano to resaw some oak. I'm guessing that 90% of the woodworking equipment in the hobbyist's shop is lighter than my DJ-20, which rolls around fine with large single-wheel casters.

todd

You will be better served by buying Delta mobile bases. They come with a "foot lift" and generally are built like a tank.

Average price for "typical base" is around $90.

Spend the money... this is one thing you will NEVER regret.

JP wrote:

We call the things 'elephant feet', and use 'em to move heavy commercial cooking equipment (mixers, ovens, etc). They're not for permanent attachment.

OTOH they can carry a _lot_ of weight. No sweat moving a 1500 pound pizza oven around.

Cheers, Fred McClellan the dash plumber at mindspring dot com

On 17 Sep 2003 09:32:05 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (JP) Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:

rockler has their version of the delta mobile base on sale right now for 39 bux...for that price, its well worth a look

I think those would be considered dolly or dollies, since they consist of multiple casters. Hope this helps. BigJoe