Heavy Duty Castors

I am looking to buy two (or maybe four if the price is right) heavy duty castors.

They need to have 75mm dia iron or steel wheel and preferably be of the type with a rectangular fixing plate with a lug at either end and a central stud for fixing.

The type I am after is as the ones used on several makes of car wheel dollies.

The dollies sell for as little as £20 each so hopfully the wheels should not be mor ethan a fiver each.

Try as I may I hav been unable to find a supplier of these castors, only ones wirth rubber or plastic wheels/tyres or a very low strength (furniture grade) iron wheel. An old or damaged wheel dolly would do if it had half decent castors on.

Any ideas on where to source them?

John

I think you just solved your problem all by yourself! Buy a car wheel dolly for 20 quid, use the wheels and turn the curved wheel plate thingy into a garden ornament or something. Or use the wheels and put the other stuff in the bin.

Ian

Screwfix 39449 4pk £10.49 or 36084 £21.99 heavy duty rubber& steel castors.

john,

A quick search found a cast iron furniture castor capable of 113kg for £19.00 ea

martin p

Try looking for pallet truck spares or engine crane spares.

Thanks Martin, yes I think I found those but don't look as robust as the others.

Perhaps I should have said I have done a fair search on Google, Bing, Fleabay, Amazon, Alibaba and contacted the suppliers of wheel dollies having similar castors - but cannot find a 'source supplier' of the castors or get replacements as spares for less than the whole dolly (noted your comment Ian)

Thanks Bayzle - Ill try that angle

It seems to be often the way that a whole item such as car dolly is cheaper to buy than its parts. Having been through the same search, I doubt you will find heavy duty castors cheaper than 5 quid each so 20 quid for a dolly is probably a good deal. At my local Bunnings hardware store it is cheaper to buy a four-castor furniture moving dolly than to buy four of the identical castors off the adjacent shelf. Go figure.

Sorry not to have replied earlier, did you get sorted with some castors?

I needed some a while ago, and got some from Coldene Wheels in Aylesbury

A search on line will find them.

Clarke sell them for their AWD1 dollys but they have nylon wheels, about £12 +P&P if I remember correctly. I emailed them direct as I only needed a new wheel, I ended up making the wheel from solid nylon, I got enough material to make two wheels for a bit less...

Is this the style you are after? These are made by Tente. Fixed furniture castor They are not what you are after as they have plastic wheels but they may make what you are after if you search their web site.

Martin C