replacing legs with lockable casters

[BlueBeetle]

Have any of you done this?

[berlyn]

No, but a Chambers on E-bay a while back had casters.

I do prefer mine without the skirt, but have kept it anyway incase I change my mind.
And my cat loves to lay under Big Bertha & play with my feet while cooking and hide from the other not so friendly cats!!

berlyn

[phoebe9435]

You know I think that was my Beauty you saw on ebay that had casters - didn't come to me with them though. Didn't someone recently say that they had theirs up on a piano dolly (said they were tall, I believe.)

Save those legs if you take them off - they are really expensive to replace!

[maryopal]

We are planning to put Opal on either a platform or casters. If we use casters, I am not sure we will go for locking ones. Seems like that would just be a nuisance. We put my new stove, Vida on the caster/track. If you have looked at casters, you probably know what I mean - you use 2, and you don't have to remove the stove legs. We did this so we can scoot her around in the garage while we work on her. Can someone tell me what thread /size bolts will be needed on individual casters?

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ March 06, 2006 07:42 PM: Message edited by: maryopal ]</font>

[BlueBeetle]

Yeah, I was wondering what size the bolts would be, and if anyone had any good suggestions on where to get them.

I'd want lockable ones so I could keep the stove from rolling once in place, but easily movable when I wanted to move it to work on it or clean beneath/behind.

[nortonsmom]

We put our stove up on big casters to get it in the house, to work on and to move around while we work on the kitchen. My husband says the diameter is 1/2" and its 13 threads per inch-just put them where the legs went. They are quite large about 5" in height-industrial orange and will be coming out when the kitchen is done and the stove can stay where it is. The small dogs in the house like them as they can scootch under the whole stove....makes me nervous! Wagging tails hanging out the front, if you can picture that! Its handy for now, but I'm looking forward to the day the stove is stationary and cant move at all!
Mel

[lowracer]

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[RobbiQuest]

Mark, I'd be interested to know how high your stove stands with the casters on. Would love to see a pic when they're on too.

[lindaw2]

My 61C is on casters. We put them on when working on it and left them on when we installed it. The 2 in the front lock, the rear don't.
Probably irrelevant since the casters are [i]about[/i] the same height as the original legs but I am short (5'1" or so) and my family is waiting for me to pull a Mrs. Doubtfire and set myself on fire. I think the legs that came with the stove probably would have been better for me

[lowracer]

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ March 09, 2006 11:23 PM: Message edited by: lowracer ]</font>