KevinPartner
Plastic
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- Jul 9, 2017
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Hello all! This is my first time posting in the rigging forum, and I'd like some opinions on a design for home made machine skates I have:
The rolling surfaces will be 1/2 x 1 1/8 bearings and have a static load rating of 530lb: McMaster-Carr
The plates that hold the axles (1/2 drill rod) will be 3/4 x 6 x 1 3/4 with the holes drilled appropriately. Since I am using 18 of them per skate, I'd assume that I can handle my 6000 lb mill with four of them. Any ideas on if I should wrap the bearings in something, and if so what? This will just be for moving the mill across concrete in my garage. Anything over the pavement will merit disassembling the mill into the 3000lb, 1000lb, 500lb, 500lb pieces which I will then drag around using a pallet jack. (I know there is weight missing from that, it's all the small parts that I can carry by hand)
Also, I went a little crazy on the bearings as in Canada the only source I could find that sells them for a reasonable price sells them in a package of 100.
Edit: It appears I've attached the thumbnail, here is the full drawing: Home Made Machine Skates - Album on Imgur
The rolling surfaces will be 1/2 x 1 1/8 bearings and have a static load rating of 530lb: McMaster-Carr
The plates that hold the axles (1/2 drill rod) will be 3/4 x 6 x 1 3/4 with the holes drilled appropriately. Since I am using 18 of them per skate, I'd assume that I can handle my 6000 lb mill with four of them. Any ideas on if I should wrap the bearings in something, and if so what? This will just be for moving the mill across concrete in my garage. Anything over the pavement will merit disassembling the mill into the 3000lb, 1000lb, 500lb, 500lb pieces which I will then drag around using a pallet jack. (I know there is weight missing from that, it's all the small parts that I can carry by hand)
Also, I went a little crazy on the bearings as in Canada the only source I could find that sells them for a reasonable price sells them in a package of 100.
Edit: It appears I've attached the thumbnail, here is the full drawing: Home Made Machine Skates - Album on Imgur
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