This is my public service announcement on the proper way to purchase casters....
If you find yourself in need of casters for your production, you are not alone. There is help out there for you. Whatever you do, do not get in your car and drive to get casters from your nearest big box store. That will end in tears. However, McMaster-Carr is there to help. They are one friendly phone call or Click. So please, don't buy casters at your neighborhood big box store.....
I just submitted a order to McMaster-Carr to caster up the show I am working on. The theatre already has a caster stock, however it is pure junk. 95% of the casters are 4" or 5" and none of them have bearings on the wheel. They are just greased neoprene. This is the second theatre I have had to do this at. Bearings are good things and almost all of the casters found at Lowes or the Depot don't have them. What also amazes me is the casters I buy from McMaster-Carr only cost a dollar or two more then the big box store version.
If you find yourself in need of casters for your production, you are not alone. There is help out there for you. Whatever you do, do not get in your car and drive to get casters from your nearest big box store. That will end in tears. However, McMaster-Carr is there to help. They are one friendly phone call or Click. So please, don't buy casters at your neighborhood big box store.....
I just submitted a order to McMaster-Carr to caster up the show I am working on. The theatre already has a caster stock, however it is pure junk. 95% of the casters are 4" or 5" and none of them have bearings on the wheel. They are just greased neoprene. This is the second theatre I have had to do this at. Bearings are good things and almost all of the casters found at Lowes or the Depot don't have them. What also amazes me is the casters I buy from McMaster-Carr only cost a dollar or two more then the big box store version.