Quality Casters for the Shop

[Chet]

I needed some casters for a shop project and found this company Service Casters  I purchased the 3 1/2" casters with polyurethane tires, total lock (swivel and tire) and Zerk fittings.  Each caster is rated 300 Lb. capacity.  The four casters plus shipping were $46 less than my Local Ace Hardware. As much as I would prefer to support my local business $46 is too much of a savings to ignore.  This company is in Pennsylvania and I am in California, I ordered them Monday around 10 am and received them 1 pm Wednesday afternoon.  The quality is top notch from everything I see so far.  They had them pack like they were fine china.

[Ronn W]

Hope they serve you well.

[wtnhighlander]

Thanks for the link, that could be handy!

[Tom King]

Those will work nicely.  I have similar ones under a drill press. 

I like four swivels under a planer.  When running a bunch of pieces that require multiple passes, we spin the planer 180 rather than pass the pieces back and forth.

With everything else I use two fixed ones.  It makes it a bit harder to maneuver the machine, but it doesn't ever get squirrely when using it.  A planer does the pulling itself, so it doesn't matter much.  With two fixed, you only have to lock one of the lockers to make something stationary.

Under the 24" bandsaw, I used two fixed, and two total lockers that lock the swivel as well as the wheel. 

The swivels under the drill press are also total lockers.  Those are all I will use in the future.  I need to change a couple under the spindle sander.