Castors on everything
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Castors on everything
Sorry if this is a rehash, but I'm fixing to (southern talk) install some floor-supported cabinets in my home garage. I'm considering building a platform with castors for them. It seems that everything in my garage needs to be moved at one time or another. Has anyone else done this? Any shortcuts?
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Some years ago when I livedat a different house with a 10'x10' utility house, I went to Home Depot and bought one of their inexpensive unfinished kitchen sink base cabinets. I put two 3/4" plywood boards on top, then reinforced the ends, inside and back of the cabinet with 2x4's. At that time I did not put casters on it. When I moved to my new house which did not have a separate utility house, only a two car garage, I put casters on it so I could moved it around easier. I used the locking casters so it would not moved when I locked the casters. However the garage floor was not completely level and in some spots the workbench wobbles slightly. But I'm glad I did it. Even on casters the workbench is still tough to move because it is so heavy. But I may temporary attach the workbench to the wall using some type of steel bar or latch so when I use the vise I attached to the workbench I can really put some muscle into hammering or bending something.
Last edited by kabcpapc; Dec 3, 2005 at 10:41 PM.
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Here's a spin on the idea. On my band saw, I have two casters on it. The other two corners have threaded rod sticking out from the bottom to level it. This does two things. It will let me accomodate some uneveness of the floor by loosening the top or bottom nut and adjusting the length of the rod then retightening the nut. The other thing it lets me do is slightly lift the side with the rods and just wheel it wherever it needs to be. Once the rods are resting on the floor, it's more or less locked in place. Another thing that I did was to go to the cabinet hardware aisle and get little rubber caps (like for chair legs) of the correct size for the rod and slip them over the bottom. My garage floor isn't in great shape, but there won't be any added scratches from my band saw....
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The other thing to keep in mind is that just because the cabinets are on casters doesn't mean they won't take up space. Whenever my grandfather sees some useable lumber at the dump he grabs it. For a while, he went on a cabinet-building binge with the scrap, and built several rolling bench/drawer units. Unfortunately, they take up so much room in the garage bay (he has a two-car garage and keeps one car in it) that it is very hard to move around, and even getting the lawn tractor in to work on it requires a lot or reorganizing
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At least things are easier to reorganize when they are on casters and you can pack more tools into a given area when you don't have to allow working room around each one. Of course it adds to the setup time to do anything tho.
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