Replacing old casters with new Premium ones.

monclover · Post by **monclover** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:31 pm

Any alternative suggestions on replacing Casters without having to turn-over the entire machine on it's back? I received the new Casters but was unaware I had to get involved with heavy machinery moving. That may have been okay for me 25 years ago, but not anymore.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:39 pm

monclover wrote:Any alternative suggestions on replacing Casters without having to turn-over the entire machine on it's back? I received the new Casters but was unaware I had to get involved with heavy machinery moving. That may have been okay for me 25 years ago, but not anymore.

If you can get down to floor level to do the work all you have to do is lift one end of the Mark 5/V far enough off the floor to extract the casters and put on new ones and then repeat the procedure at the other end.

If you are upgrading to the new, larger casters - that too can be done without going inverted. In fact, I believe it works as good if not better than rolling the machine over.

I have a garbage can that just barely slides under the bench tubes. With that in place, I install pieces of pieces wood to lift it high enough to do the work.

BTW, you have entered multiple copies of this thread (you cannot delete them) because you did not allow the system time to work before you hit the enter key again. Patience, Grasshopper. Patience.

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