Hi folks,
Usually my ability to find products on the internet is pretty solid, but I'm struggling with this one. Yesterday, like an idiot, I stood on a (beefy) coffee table to be able to reach something above it. There was no doubt in my mind that the heavy wood table would support my weight. I forgot that the beefy table legs don't actually touch the floor, there are actually casters that hold the table up so that the table legs hover maybe 2 mm above the floor.
One of the casters ruptured as soon as I started climbing on the table. I need to find essentially an exact replacement, which is a bit tough because the caster is just 1" diameter. So, I started searching on Amazon and generally online for a swivel stem caster, 1" diameter twin wheel, non-threaded stem, no brake needed. See images below:
Stem is an inch and a half long above the swivel point and fits into an insert collar that holds it in the stem hole in the support foot.
Amazon has a tool to filter down the results but it works imperfectly; selecting swivel stem casters gave about 400 pages of results. Eventually I bought this one which is the closest I found in the first 15 pages of results:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BRD6784V/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AF9CPILHGHOMP&psc=1
But the stem is only half as long as the original, and it doesn't look like it comes with fitted collars, so I probably can't reuse my current collar. It also has a brake, but I don't mind that.
Anyway, a plain nylon 1" twin wheel swivel stem caster shouldn't be so hard to find, and yet, this one is.
Any hints on how to get a closer match? I googled around and looked at various online stores without quite finding it. If I were in the market for a 2" caster it would be easy, but the size is critical since the table floats on the casters with the "feet" just off the floor.
Usually my ability to find products on the internet is pretty solid, but I'm struggling with this one. Yesterday, like an idiot, I stood on a (beefy) coffee table to be able to reach something above it. There was no doubt in my mind that the heavy wood table would support my weight. I forgot that the beefy table legs don't actually touch the floor, there are actually casters that hold the table up so that the table legs hover maybe 2 mm above the floor.
One of the casters ruptured as soon as I started climbing on the table. I need to find essentially an exact replacement, which is a bit tough because the caster is just 1" diameter. So, I started searching on Amazon and generally online for a swivel stem caster, 1" diameter twin wheel, non-threaded stem, no brake needed. See images below:
Stem is an inch and a half long above the swivel point and fits into an insert collar that holds it in the stem hole in the support foot.
Amazon has a tool to filter down the results but it works imperfectly; selecting swivel stem casters gave about 400 pages of results. Eventually I bought this one which is the closest I found in the first 15 pages of results:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BRD6784V/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AF9CPILHGHOMP&psc=1
But the stem is only half as long as the original, and it doesn't look like it comes with fitted collars, so I probably can't reuse my current collar. It also has a brake, but I don't mind that.
Anyway, a plain nylon 1" twin wheel swivel stem caster shouldn't be so hard to find, and yet, this one is.
Any hints on how to get a closer match? I googled around and looked at various online stores without quite finding it. If I were in the market for a 2" caster it would be easy, but the size is critical since the table floats on the casters with the "feet" just off the floor.