Wheels Rollin' Along...

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Rob,
            Some axle's are held in place with cotter pins. Once the two
cotter pins are removed, the axle can be slid out, and the wheels drop out.
When reassembling, use a piece of piano wire to fish for the alignment of
the axle and housing holes, bend it over on each end untill you get one pin
back in.
Fun and games, took me about 3hrs to fix one wheel, half of that time was
drinking coffee, and trying to figure what the heck I was doing.  
At a $100 you must be getting them at 1/2 price. $800 Cnd for a set the
last time I checked.  Ouch!!!

Roger

At 09:43 AM 07/12/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Howdeee...
>
>You may recall my recent post about the unique German-like legs
>on a 9', one of which suffered the fate of breaking, (ouch).  My
>search for a proper replacement was a complete failure so I
>decided to rebuild the broken one.  With great skill that only an
>experienced expert craftsman could do, <snicker snicker>, I
>purchased some maple stock and duplicated the entire top portion
>of the leg.  It came out beautiful.  I doubt anyone will ever
>know that it had broken, <patting self on back>. ;-)
>
>So anyway...  The casters on this thing are the huge German type
>with the double wheels and the built in brake knob to lock it.
>One of the wheels does not turn very easily even with the brake
>off.  I tried a little oil , (caster oil of course- pun
>intended), but the result was the same.  I am thinking that the
>brake mechanism may not be fully retracting when it is off.  The
>system is not visible beyond the handle and thus the wheel will
>need to be disassembled to repair whatever is wrong with it.
>
>PROBLEM:  How do you disassemble these wheels??  There does not
>appear to be any removable parts other than an allen screw to
>remove the end of the brake handle.  Looking t the wheel
>hub/axel, it appears to be solid brass neatly passing through the
>heavy outer brass frame.  It does not appear necessarily to be a
>forced friction compression fit.  I can't imaging that the
>manufacturer did not intend for this thing to be serviceable,
>particularly with the brake attachment.  I bet this single wheel
>probably cost over $100.00, there has to be a way to maintenance
>it!  Has anyone taken one of these big wheels apart?  Howdja do
>it??
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
> 
Roger Jolly
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