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Unread 24-01-2012, 21:50
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Al Skierkiewicz Al Skierkiewicz is offline
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Re: Laying it all out there

Team,
I only have a few minutes so I haven't read all the posts if this has been stated already. If you have any plans of going onto the bridge, casters are the worst thing you could try. While they could be made to work OK on flat floors you cannot control them on a sloped surface. Teams have ignored this warning in the past so I will tell you that once you find the casters a burden, you can fix the position of the wheel. Just drill a hole through the plates of the caster, insert a screw and nut to lock the rotating pieces and turn the casters into non-rotating wheels. We abandoned casters in '98 and that played on a flat floor, never to be resurrected.
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