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04-28-2008, 07:02 PM
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#1 | | mobile base Name: Archie City: Garner State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Nov 2006 Age: 66  04-28-2008, 07:02 PM
Anyone know if any of those HTC cheapo mobile base's are still
around? Any body got one they would part with?
I need one for my router table and don't want to spend more on
it than I did on the router table. Guess I should have bought
spares when HD had them on sale.
Thanks,
Woodrat.
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04-28-2008, 07:25 PM
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Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 48 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 7.00 over 180 days | Re: mobile base May not be what you want to do or may not work in your particular situation, but look in my gallery and see what I did on my jointer with a scrap of 3/4 ply and 20.00 worth of wheels from the borg. I am happy. I put 4 swivel casters on it so the steering was easy into tight spaces.
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04-28-2008, 07:33 PM
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Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 60 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 6.30 over 180 days | Re: mobile base Originally Posted by newtowood May not be what you want to do or may not work in your particular situation, but look in my gallery and see what I did on my jointer with a scrap of 3/4 ply and 20.00 worth of wheels from the borg. I am happy. I put 4 swivel casters on it so the steering was easy into tight spaces. I have a cheapo HF mobile base under one of my tablesaw's but I am going with the casters/plywood method for the rest of my machines and benches. I currently have 20 locking swivel casters I got from Northern Tool waiting to be made into bases. I am just a LITTLE behind in shop setup 
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04-28-2008, 07:48 PM
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#4 | | Webmaster Administrator Senior Moderator
Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 48 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 7.00 over 180 days | Re: mobile base I have found that Tractor supply has a good selection of casters. Actually much better than Lowes. I haven't been to Northern in a while though.
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04-28-2008, 10:21 PM
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Name: Randy City: Macon State: NC County: Warren Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 5.48 over 180 days | Re: mobile base Archie, I saw ONE of the HTC bases at the HD at 540 and hwy 64 last week. Don't know if it's still there but you might check.
Good luck,
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04-28-2008, 10:46 PM
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Name: Archie City: Garner State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Nov 2006 Age: 66 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 0.27 over 180 days | Re: mobile base Thanks everyone for the replies.
RandyJ, that's not very far from me. I'll check it out.
Thanks again everyone. Gotta love this place.
Woodrat
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04-28-2008, 10:51 PM
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Name: Randy City: Macon State: NC County: Warren Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 5.48 over 180 days | Re: mobile base Archie, IIRC it was on the aisle with the folding sawhorses, not in tool world...
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04-29-2008, 12:50 AM
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Name: Bas City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 36 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 6.96 over 180 days | Re: mobile base Sorry Archie, I'm fresh out. I snagged the last three at the Home Depot here in Cary a few months ago when they were on sale for $20, those all found a home with various NCWWers. You may want to check around, but I can tell you the store in Apex doesn't have any either.... Like Randy said, check the aisles that have the sawhorses/ truck tool boxes in addition to Tool World. Who knows, you might get lucky.
For a router table, casters might be a better option actually. The HTC1000 bases are solid, but they need something heavy or they wiggle too easily.
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04-29-2008, 09:27 AM
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Name: Archie City: Garner State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Nov 2006 Age: 66 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 0.27 over 180 days | Re: mobile base Originally Posted by Bas Sorry Archie, I'm fresh out. I snagged the last three at the Home Depot here in Cary a few months ago when they were on sale for $20, those all found a home with various NCWWers. You may want to check around, but I can tell you the store in Apex doesn't have any either.... Like Randy said, check the aisles that have the sawhorses/ truck tool boxes in addition to Tool World. Who knows, you might get lucky.
For a router table, casters might be a better option actually. The HTC1000 bases are solid, but they need something heavy or they wiggle too easily. Bas,
I also got some of those on sale for $20.00 and now wish I had gotten
more. At that price, it was a very good deal.
It's no big thing. I'll bide my time and wait for a sale/clearance on them
somewhere and pick up some more.
Thanks,
Archie
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04-29-2008, 11:58 PM
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Name: Mark City: Fuquay Varina State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Nov 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 6.14 over 180 days | Re: mobile base I see that Rockler has their version of the Delta Universal Base on sale for $35. I have couple of these and they work fine.
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04-30-2008, 01:28 PM
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Name: Roger City: Durham State: NC County: Durham Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 63 Avg Visit Freq/Week = 6.46 over 180 days | Re: mobile base Don't forget Homier's mobile base. It's the "Harbor Freight" of the internet, but I've had one for 2 years and it works well for my PM bandsaw. IIRC it's under $25 shipped Homier Mobile Machinery Base
Roger
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