Tuesday, May 8, 2012

99 Problems

And Center Casters are one. Since I have the Foot Drives in now, my next plan of attack was to tackle the whole drive system and get R2 on wheels. The main problem I'm having right now is with the center caster wheels. I got these below from Rockler after reading up about how much better skate style wheels are. The issue I'm having is that they don't line up with the JAG mounting bracket very well. This is about the best way to mount them, but when you swing them both to the extreme outer position they are almost 2 inches too wide for the foot shell. I'm looking into possibly getting the post style casters that I could pop the wheels out and still use these. Its either that or devise a way to mount the casters over the plate's bolt holes after its installed. That may be what finally happens. I'm also looking at the one big McMaster caster that a couple builders have used, but it looks like it would require modifying the JAG plate a good bit.




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