Hi, Is this one of those self locking nuts that holds the wheel in place? The sort with a nylon bushing inside to keep it from spinning off?
You probably need to back them off a half turn. Are the rear wheels held on differently to the front ones? You might get a hint from that. I am guessing that the wheels have a nylon or other high density poly bushing style bearing. If so you probably don't want a petroleum based lubricant, maybe graphite or Teflon, something dry not to attract dust to behave as an abrasive. ----- Original Message ----- From: William Stephan To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 7:19 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Greasing the wheels or not Well, by way of background: I finally bought myself a light-duty table saw from the lads at Harbor Freight. It's light enough that I can move it around relatively easily, though I'm sure it's not the most accurate thing available. And, since I've done that, I needed to figure out how to get the lumber to cut with the saw. One of the folks on this list (I won't embarrase him), has this same problem of how to haul stuff, and while we were at convention, he pretty well convinced me that a large garden cart was a very necessary thing. My wife green-lighted both purchases, and I was able to scrounge a ride with a coworker with a really souped up, refrigerator white El Camino over to the local Home Depot, during a pretty wild thunderstorm, and picked up the cart, in a box of course. I opened the carton on Saturday and looked over what I had. I understood some of it, but not enough to put the thing together with even a prayer that it would be right. I scanned the instruction sheet/manual, which was really special because Spanish and English were commingled in the text. Still no dyse. So, I bribed the fellow who does our book keeping and is an occasional reader to come over on Sunday and spend about three hours in the blazing sun putting the thing together. Even with him looking at the diagram and reading the instructions, it was far far from intuitive, for me anyway. Maybe if I had seen one of these assembled I could have figured it out. The bottom line now though is that the front wheels, while they do turn, are not really what I'd call free. There don't seem to be bearings in the wheels, and they are affixed to the axel in front of a spacer and with a wassier and nut to hold the assembly together. I don't know whether to grind off the ends of the spacers a little bit, grease the whole set-up, or just wait and see if things get better with a little use. Any thoughts from some of you folks? If I should lubricate this, what would be a good product? BTW, it's a nice cart, measures 24 x 48 with foot-high sides that can be folded down. I even used it as a nice back-saving platform for grinding down the two dogs' nails today, so I think it was a wise investment, even if it isn't rolling so good right yet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
