Dale: The instructions refer to the nut as a lock nut, but they say to tighten it down. The spacers are just short pieces of tubing or pipe, and I'm thinking about maybe grinding them down a hair. All the wheels are attached in the same fashion. I don't really have a jack, so I was hoping I wouldn't have to take all four wheels off and look at the spacers, but I might have to do that especially if I chicken out on the grinding. I guess too, that I could back the nuts off a half turn or so after putting some glue on the threads to keep them from vibrating off, does that sound like a good ide? Thanks for any more thoughts.
Bill Stephan Kansas Citty MO Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (816)803-2469 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, September 1, 2008 7:20 pm Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Greasing the wheels or not > 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] > >
