Re: Rangate 300 Lift Cart
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýWade, the ¡°ledge¡± that supports material when the top is flipped down into vertical position is about 10-inches tall ? It¡¯s a U-shaped tube with one center brace, so you can slide materials between the tubes if they are under about 22-inches in width. ?I wouldn¡¯t want to be without that ¡°ledge¡± as it acts as a handle to maneuver the cart when it has heavy loads and the table is in the up/flat position. ?Fellow FOG member Steve Rowe has the ShopCarts unit as well and did a nice review of it here: |
David P. Best
I customized mine with swivel casters on both ends and a lanyard I made at summer camp on the releasing pin ring. ?It will easily hold 8 sheets of 3/4 ApplePly weighing 1,000 pounds. ?I¡¯ve done that a few times. ?The same load of ApplePly on my Barth 500V (which is rated the same in load capacity) will cause the top of the Barth to creep down about 2-inches per hour. ?So much for ¡°German engineering¡±. ? ?As Steve points out, with more than about 5 sheets of 3/4-inch plywood loaded on it, you will really struggle tilting that top from vertical to horizontal position without some kind of mechanical assistance. ?I have a ceiling-mounted HF wench )) to help with this and to raise/lower my wall-mounted glue-up bench (discussed here: ?).
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On Jul 12, 2023, at 4:56 AM, Wade Dees <wjdsignature@...> wrote:David Best,No more Felder ¡°machine Kool-Aid¡±, but am considering trying their ¡°equipment Kool-Aid¡± ?I will say though, after seeing your link to the Shopcarts 4¡¯ panel handler, that¡¯s now on the consideration table.When the 4¡¯ panel handler is in the vertical position you stack your material on the lip or ledge to support the material, but wouldn¡¯t it be great if there was some ¡°magical¡± way to design it to where you could fold that ledge away and have a flat work table you could use and access on all sides of it. ?Do you know how wide that lip/ledger is?Thx,WadeOn Jul 11, 2023, at 9:08 PM, David P. Best <dbestworkshop@...> wrote:?Wade, me thinks you have slurped too much Felder brand Kool-Aid. ?Great castors are cheap and easy to put on. ?Last time I looked Barth wanted something like $1K for a laminated top with holes. ?That too is cheap and easy to fabricate in your shop, or outsource to a water-jet facility. ??The Hafele tilting panel cart is no longer sold by Hafele. ?I had one myself, on sale it was $299 in 2002. ?I sold it when I moved, missed it so much I wanted to buy another, but they had stopped selling them, so I got the Shop Cart which is eve beefier. ?I too replaced the castors on my Hafele cart..David Best
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On Jul 11, 2023, at 8:40 PM, Wade Dees <wjdsignature@...> wrote:Aaron Inami,That castor wheel description sounds like the perfect scenario for a castor wheel set up on these tables. ?For me that¡¯s another notch in the pro column for the Fat 300 S.Thx,WadeOn Jul 11, 2023, at 7:29 PM, Aaron Inami <ainami@...> wrote:?Felder describes the casters as "2 lockable swivel castors and 2 swivel casters with directional locks".
The "2 swivel casters with directional locks" will lock into one direction, but will still roll.? This acts as a fixed castor to help with transporting material across the shop? (if you have 4 fully swivel castors, it's really difficult to control the cart when you are moving stuff around).? If you "unlock" them, they become a standard swivel castor.
The "2 lockable swivel castors" are complete dual-locking casters.? They will lock in any direction as well as apply a brake to the wheel so that the table does not roll off on its own.