The Bench had gone mobile

[wouldwurker]

Casters are expensive. That's what stops me from buying them. That said, this is the best $80 I've spent in a while.

Picked up the woodriver side mount, foot activated wheels for my bench yesterday.

I had to beef up the legs on my bench a bit before I installed them. That yellow pine bottom cross piece is new, as is the end cap.

Here's the whole bench, crap and all, turned sideways. I really like the foot activated side mount casters, as there's absolutely no chance of the locking mechanism failing, as you have with the on/off bottom mount casters.

If I could do it all over, the bench would be a bit lower so as to double as an out feed table, but oh well.

This makes me want to put everything on wheels now.

[nod]

Thumbs up. I've eyed those casters before as well. will be using once my bench is off the saw horses

[Mad Hungarian]

You know, this is tempting.  It'd certainly make it easier to get to the plywood i store behind my bench.

[TheWoodShouter]

Looks good! But do they lock into place firmly when you're working at the bench? No wiggle back and forth as your say sawing or sanding something?

 

Thanks!

 

-TWS

[wouldwurker]

Absolutely, because the wheels don't lock, the foot release physically drops the legs to the ground while the wheels float above the floor.

[TheWoodShouter]

OK, so they are not really locking casters, but more like mobile base wheels, or the wheels on my Ridgid R4512 table saw. Sounds good, I will consider these for my bench.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question, and good luck with your bench and projects!

TWS

[wouldwurker]

[TheWoodShouter]

I see now. Very heavy duty, they look like they'd be very secure. Thanks for sharing the pic and for your help!

-TWS

[Jerry_in_SD]

Rockler has a similar product. My bench is probably close to 300#. They work great.