Weekend wheel swap!!

[nipple]

Hey guys,

Recently purchased new wheels and castors for the crew.

Spent today jacking them up off the ground and swapping out 30 year old hard rubber for nice supple new shoes.

The front castors were a bit more difficult but definitely worth it. 5 took about 2 minutes each and ofcourse the last one probably 2-3 hours. I ended up snapping the thread inside the welded on nut. Which involved having to remove the stainless kick panel from the machine and then had to drill out and retap the m10 1.5 pitch thread in the nut.

2nd pic old and new
3rd pic new shoes
4 pic old aftermarket wheels. The other 2 had original black wheels that were hard and scratched the floor.

See link below for where to buy!!

https://www.candycabclub.com/product/astrocity_wheel

Cheers

 

[XtraSmiley]

Great job! How are the new wheels on the wood floor? Any marks?

 

[nipple]

Great job! How are the new wheels on the wood floor? Any marks?

The new wheels are quite soft. So they should be good, the old wheels would have definitely marked if I left them on. They are so hardened and have sand and grit stuck in them from years of being moved around, that they were like sandpaper.

I like to tinker with the cabs so I have them in and out a fair bit.

I’m pretty careful to lean them back when I roll them because the front feet are metal underneath and the original were rusty and sharp. The new feet are smooth and chrome on the under side.

Cheers

 

[djsheep]

Nice work @nipple — I’m looking forward to getting my stock and changing them out on all my cabs.

What did you use to jack the cabs up? You reckon I’d be good with a few bits of solid ply??

 

[nipple]

Yep the base is pretty flat, and they aren’t heavy so I just rocked them backwards and put 2 small offcuts of rubber about 20mm high I had laying around under both front feet, making sure they were not touching the stainless kick board. I had them in place to stop bending the stainless kick plate when you lift the back.

Then I went to the rear and rocked it forward, and installed about 100mm high packer (anything would do) whilst it was still on the front packers mentioned above

Once I changed the wheels I took the rear packer out and raised the front 100mm to get to the feet.

The wheels were simple to do and make the rear of the cabinet look good too.