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Replacing Caster Wheels On Plant Caddy

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This video demonstrates how to replace standard, broken swivel casters on a cast iron plant caddy with new, heavy-duty swivel casters. The process involves measuring, marking, and cutting the bolts of the new casters to the appropriate length using an angle grinder, then installing them onto the plant caddy.

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so my friend has an awesome lemon tree that he keeps inside in the winter and this cast iron flower pot holder that has swiveling casters well broke hey folks that fix it guy here my friend has this movable plant holder that's on casters well one of the wheels broke all right so a grinder some new Casters in a few minutes we're back in business so come along let's get to [Music] [Applause] fixing okay so you can see this appears to be the right size it has been cut off before and it bottomed down to this nut right here so that's the measurement we're going to get about a half inch just need to cut these bolts down to/ inch and we'll be good to go now this is the bigger Caster that we're going to put on it actually has a brake and uh it's two-part plastic and rubber should work out really well I just attached my little portable swivel Vie onto this wagon right here um just cuz I needed to be close to power and this worked out really well this is going to be great be able to chop those off real quick get this job done so now we're just going to take our Sharpie and we're going to Mark each one of these turns out I had to move my Vise cuz it still wasn't going to reach this works out pretty well though this so then they give you this little small super skinny wrench that just go right down in here and you give this its fin a little snug in place good to go that is going to be awesome pretty sure this is the leg that broke and it cracked that cast iron Just a Touch too but be good to roll it should not affect this roll last but not least St sometimes my technique is not always the best and you get a couple little Burrs like that just back to the go this is going in my pocket okay so now this sets up a bit higher and it's going to roll honestly in my opinion a lot easier then if you wanted to lock it in place well click that down and guess what you ain't rolling anywhere pretty sweet sweet all right folks so it did not take that long to hook this up right some new casters a little bit of grinding and a portable swivel Vie all right I just needed power I didn't have an extension cord and this worked out really well I might need to get myself a wagon that I can always have a visce on it's a pretty cool thing for out in the yard I really hope you folks are enjoying the videos if you can please subscribe click that like button we'd love to have you keep coming back check us out over on Facebook we're doing good things everywhere trying to help people out we hope we're doing that thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon

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