[TheForge] Source for flat track sliding door wheels?

[Bruce Freeman]

I don't know where to find these wheels, but can suggest some alternatives.

1) Small pulley wheels.  Okay, you probably can't buy these loose
either, but you may be able to get enough cheap or used pulleys that
you can sacrifice.  These will typically be wheels with rounded
grooves, not square grooves, but they'll probably stay on the track.

2) Same as above, but with V-belt pulleys.  If you can find them small
and cheap.

3) 1/4"-thick disk or washer (or stack of washers) of "smaller"
diameter stacked on the same shaft with thinner, larger diameter
washers, the whole forming effectively the wheel you want.

4) Same as above, but brazed together.

5) A 1/2" ID (or less) by ~1 3/8" OD flanged ball bearing.  (Flange is
pretty small, though, and face may be >>1/4".)

-B

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Douglas C Wilson
<dcwilson at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I am building hardware for sliding doors for the shop. The track is 1/4 x 2
> bar on edge. I would prefer to not have to build the wheels/casters that run
> on the flat bar track. Lots of places sell the hardware as a unit but will
> not sell wheels. I have looked at casters for angle iron V-track and at wire
> rope sheaves but neither have the narrow and deep profile groove of a flat
> track wheel that keeps it from jumping the track.
>
> Anyone know of a source for these specialty wheels?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
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