Steelex D2613 3-Inch Threaded Swivel Polyurethane Wheel, red

I bought four of these casters to mobilize a drill press accessory cabinet. A light load for these casters. The cabinet has chrome tube steel legs which I fabricated aluminum dowels to fit inside the legs, D & T'ed for the threaded M12-1.75 x 28mm stud on the caster.1) I believe the 5" wheel size is the minimum diameter for any castor in a garage. It rolls over concrete joints or a crack, hose, cord, etc. Especially if the load is high then wheel size is important for minimizing rolling resistance. So size is important! Needle bearings in the wheel also make for easy rolling.2) The brake is double action which stops wheel and swivel rotation with one easy movement of the brake lever. I have also replaced existing casters on my equipment to this braking system which is another standard feature to get in a caster.3) Price is good for all these features.4) There is a review by 'Another Consumer' which commented on metal thickness. I also do not like Chinese products (I've been there six times) yet this comment is not fair. I measured the metal thickness and it's 0.110". The thickness of the caster metal on my 22 year old, 4 foot Kennedy roll-away toolbox (which is very heavily loaded) is 0.120" which was made in USA. 0.010 of an inch is not a significant difference. The axle bolt diameter is 0.308" and Kennedy is 0.312". Again not a significant difference. The average person or DIY'er tends to over-build things and their perception is skewed when evaluating things. One has to be an engineer to fully understand load points and sizing of parts.

Good quality. Wish there had been more info so I'd have known they wouldn't work easily on my dolly. The nut that is part of the stem is intended to go through the plate you're mounting it to. If the plate has a cutout (17mm hex shaped) then the stem nut will fit through and keep the stem from spinning while you're tightening it. The hex cutouts on my dolly were a little smaller than this. If you don't have cutouts for the hex nuts, these wheels will not sit flush against the surface and they won't be stable.The spring-metal locking teeth on one of mine were touching the teeth on the swivel plate teeth even when unlocked, so I had to take the wheel off and bend it into place. Otherwise, happy with the quality.Total height from the top of the swivel housing (which should sit against whatever you're attaching to) and the floor is about 5-1/8" which was about 1/2" more than my dolly's old plastic wheels. Also, the locking mechanism is all metal on the ones I received. Maybe the photo is outdated. You push down to lock it, then there's a second tab that you push forward on to unlock it (you don't have to get your toe under the tab to pull up).

I've adopted a practice of adding casters to every piece of equipment in my shop that I can. As a result, I've experimented with those available from harbor freight, big box stores and the higher priced versions. In most cases I've gotten almost exactly what I've paid for. These appear to be a bit of an exception and appear (so far) to be a bit above the quality that the price would indicate. Wheels are firm without being rock hard like those that I purchased with economy as my primary goal (harbor freight). Bearings move freely and the locking mechanism works. I'd also mention that my casters arrived with the metric hex nuts that others have commented on as being challenging to find. (12mm-1.75) I'd already picked some up after reading that they would be needed. But they proved useful as I used them as spacers and locking nuts on the scroll saw stand that they were purchased for needed a bit of a Rube Goldberg "fix." I would recommend that you stay within the weight guidelines for these castors and look at the significantly more expensive versions for your larger equipment. But for midsized shop equipment these will work very well.

2 Problems, When I bought this item, it was listed as commonly purchased with a Shop Fox Tool table that I purchased at the same time. 1) I assumed it came in a set of 4 (one for each leg of the table) BUT, I only received one wheel. 2) I also assumed that the caster(s) would fit the tool table, BUT, the shaft was a different diameter. I guess I should be glad that I did not order 4 of the wheels

These wheels look pretty stout, I love the way the shroud covers the bearings. It will be really hard for something to get into the roller bearings. The one thing that kept me from rating this a 5 was there were no specs for the size of the threaded shaft. I assumed it was a 3/8 shaft and had welded ends on my table legs as such only to get the wheels and find they have what appears to be 7/16 threads or could be metric. I am pretty irate since I have to cut off the end of my table legs to accommodate the larger size (another 2 hours of work plus material). I will go to a hardware store to find out what nuts fit the stem.pros: well built, great bearing protectioncons: adv does not specify the stem thread sizeshaft size too short at only 30mmthread size 12x1.75 making nuts hard to finddoes not include the nuts1/15/2013: I went to the hardware store to find that the thread size was not american but metric, 12x1.75 to be exact. It took a while to find the right size nut but could not find any jam nuts. For the price of these wheels this company should include the jam nuts since they would have more resources than the average purchaser.recommendation: yes, very well made but be aware; nuts may be hard to find