[GreenKeys] Square legs on Teletype 15 & 19 tables need inerts to put casters into -WHEELS!

[pacquerat at comcast.net]

Friends, 

I couldn't find caster inserts for my 19 some 40 years ago so I made an angle iron frame with open steel mesh to rest the feet. That prohibited the rolling under any perforator but I still haven't got a roller base for a perf anyway. 

That said. 

I found out the "hard way" that ordinary casters will NOT work on a wood floor and maybe not on plastic or composite floors. The machine is so heavy that the forces on a small, narrow high durometer or Bakelite caster will compress, PERMANENTLY, the floor material. I had to run the diameter up to 2" and 3/4" wide , double wheel, soft durometer caster assembly so my oak parquet didn't get tracks in it after rolling around the 19 to reach connections and service the REC-30... No I don't know what the durometer is, sorry. 

No problem if you have a concrete or ceramic tile floor... 

GL 

Chas 
WA1JFD 
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