Any drawbacks from putting workbench on casters?

[larry_g]

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1127997#post1127997

In the above post I show some simple machine rollers I made and you can see them in use under the mill with the floor jack at the other end. If you design your bench so t hat you can lift one end with the jack and slide in the wheels and then jack the other end up and off you go. This works well for infrequent moves. I do a lot of moves with a floor jack.

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[metalmagpie]

My welding bench is on casters. Each caster is rated for 3500 pounds. The wheels are 4x8". Here's a pic:



I can move it but it's a hump. (The table assembled weighs over a ton.)

My other workbenches are on casters too, but they have so much weight on them that they might shear the caster axles. So I put leveling screws on them and those take the weight, not the casters. Side benefit is I can make my two workbenches the same height and dead level:
Here they are empty. Doubt I'll ever see that again!



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[Trey T]

Footmaster is what I use to keep workbench mobile and stationary.

 

[jfcasey]

We have benches on wheels where I work and they're great. They're pretty heavy duty, the tops are either 1/2 or 5/8 steel plate with c channel welded around the perimeters to catch fluids running away. If the casters had brakes there's no reason I would hesitate to have a vice mounted to them.

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