[Fr. Frank]

FR Frank,

I have 6 hard casters that are either 4" of 6". I am not really sure what 8" soft casters are. Can you buy them at Home Depot or do you have to go to an industrail supply house?

Thank you

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Soft casters have metal wheels with non-pneumatic poly or rubber tires. Hard casters use metal wheels with no tires. We used to get them from a local industrial supply, but I have seen them at Northern Tool & Hydraulic up to 10" in non-pneumatic soft poly. I think harbor Freight also carries them, in 800 or 900 lb capacity. The ones we used were rated at 1200 lbs, each, but we exceeded that often. We even put a 34' Wellcraft St. Tropez on one of these wooden cradles, (although we beefed it up a bit, using doubled 2"x12"x12' bunks). It was a b**ch to move that thing around the showroom. It took 4 men to move it.