Thanks Steve. That's good advice. I have a couple of those dollies, however, the problem I have is I need to be able to move it under a normal doorway and to do that I have to keep the overall height of the dolly under 4.5". I can get the angle iron frame built economically, but I have to furnish the casters. Another thing I want to be sure of is the casters have bearings in the wheels, not just the swivels. I have an RCA BTA-1R2 that weighs in at bout 1800 pounds and it has four casters with ball bearing wheels and it rolls around very easily. The older and more beat up I get, the easier I like to make things. I have rollers under the GE transmitter now, but they are the "ball roller" type used in some conveyor systems and they are just not very efficient. It's easier than not having any rollers, but not easy enough to turn around while sitting and working on the old gal.
Thanks again, Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] For casters for my BC-1T transmitter, I shopped at the local Harbor Freight store, but noticed I could save even more money by using two of their wooden-frame moving dollies, each with four casters of exactly the same type as I was shopping for, instead of buying the individual casters. And 8 casters instead of four reduces the pressure on each. Depends on what is on sale at any given moment, of course, but I found it very handy to get the ready-made dollies. I used them for moving the transmitter when it was on its side, and then put them side by side under the rig in the final upright position. You can see them in some of the photos on my website www.wd8das.net in the "Big Rig" section http://www.wd8das.net/gates.html Steve WD8DAS ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
