Thread: Bearings for Skates

I want to make some skates to move my machines. What type of bearing would be best and does anyone know of somewhere cheap to get them.

Dean

Do you really need to use bearings.

Originally Posted by pipeclay

Do you really need to use bearings.

Cheaper suggestions would be more than welcome.

Dean

I have found Joe's thread about his little incident, and the following entries in http://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...es#post1710654

I will have a look and see what I have, to make up some like Joe's. I have the channel available.

The problem is that I need the lathe to make the skates, but I need the skates to move the lathe into position.

Dean

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

Cheaper suggestions would be more than welcome.

What Pipeclay may have been hinting at was using bushes or similar instead of bearings

Michael

Hi Dean,
Not exactly bank breaking http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/10-PCS-Ru...item20db248f82

Ew

Hi Dean, if you can think of a way to get them, you could borrow my skates, too heavy to post but if someone was going your way it would be good. I would be in no real hurry to get them back (2 or 3 months ) would be no problem. They are proper machine skates & there are 4 of them. I also have turntable that comes with them so that 1 is steerable ( but this increases the height of that one.) There is also a handle about 1 meter long that hooks to the base of the turntable so you can steer it.
I could deliver to Adelaide metro area (preferably South) if that would connect with anyone going your way.
tinkera (ian)

Hi Dean,

Being a tight limey I would use a couple of lengths of round barstock and a pry bar. Its surprising what you can shift on 35 mm barstock.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Michael. I had wondered about something like that. How would a solid cylinder, bored out to fit a shaft work? Say a 40mm roller on a 18 mm shaft. A fraction tomuch friction?

Ewan. Can't get pricing on my phone. I will have to wait until I get home .

Ian. Thanks for the offer. Maybe useful, but all my contacts are in the north of Adelaide. I also have in mind to have a set anyway. They will be handy in the future.

BarronJ. I have used galvanized pipe up until now like you say. This method is a bit limited tho. My 60yr old concrete is laid in length way strips which are uneven by up to 75mm. I want to move machinery sideways. Sort of like one of those toys where you shuffle little squares around. Smillie here. Also it is a problem with machines like my lathe which has separate base sections. It is on a timber sled at the moment, but I want to get it off this. This lathe weighs 1.5 tonne.

Dean

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

Thanks for the replies everyone.

BaronJ. I have used galvanized pipe up until now like you say. This method is a bit limited tho. My 60yr old concrete is laid in length way strips which are uneven by up to 75mm. I want to move machinery sideways. Sort of like one of those toys where you shuffle little squares around. Smillie here. Also it is a problem with machines like my lathe which has separate base sections. It is on a timber sled at the moment, but I want to get it off this. This lathe weighs 1.5 tonne.

Dean

Hi Dean,
A friend of mine shifted his Ward 5a by laying down two lengths of 1.5" x 1.5" x 1/4" wall angle iron 10 ft long. He jacked up one end and put bricks under it, then did the same at the other end. Put the angle iron underneath and removed the bricks after putting 1" round bar under it at the end in the direction he need to shift it. He used a trifor and winched it to where he wanted it to be, jacked it up and put it back on bricks so he could remove the bars and angle iron. I don't know how much a Ward weighs but it didn't seem too difficult since he did it on his own.

I have now moved 3 lathes like that. All big ones. I put timber under them . Much stronger than the angle. I have 50mm x 250mm treated pine under my Lathe at the moment. This lathe was moved off my trailer onto a platform of the pine boards and redgum slabs using pipes. This was for storage until i had room in the shed.

Now I need a bit more control. I know turning is easy, but I will also need to go sideways to line up with the right strip of concrete. I need to pour a slab first. It will be a while before I have time for this.

I did a thread on my lathe. On my phone so I can't link it.
Dean

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Michael. I had wondered about something like that. How would a solid cylinder, bored out to fit a shaft work? Say a 40mm roller on a 18 mm shaft. A fraction tomuch friction?

Try these. I just bought 4 of them to use in making machinery skates.

Given the rate of progress of the many, many projects I have running simultaneously (I actually have project timeline software keeping track) actual usage may well be a year away so don't expect any function reports from me, but they look like they'll work and the price is right. I'm going to cut each bushing into 4 parts, lots cheaper than oilite bushings which was my original plan.

PDW

"Try these. I just bought 4 of them to use in making machinery skates."

I don't see anything, but that could be my phone browser.

Dean

The other thing I was thinking was a solid acetal roller. Bore it and stick an axle through, no bearings required. Not sure on the cost of acetal though. I'm not sure what pallet jack rollers are made from but it seems to hold up ok.

Ew

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

"Try these. I just bought 4 of them to use in making machinery skates."

I don't see anything, but that could be my phone browser.

Dean

No, it's because I'm an idiot.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/390651417...84.m1438.l2649

PDW