I have two sets, one Harbor Freight, one NMW Roll Masters. The Roll
Masters sail around the garage with one hand, the HF......well. You get
what you pay for. It's in the casters for sure. I oiled the HF set and
it did roll better. Maybe Mobil1 or Red Line would be better. Roll
Masters are discontinued as near aas I can tell from the vendors I
usually check for such products.
Dave
dicksonr@uwm.edu wrote:
>Healey Listers,
>I have to move my cars around my garage in the anticipation of getting a
>friend's Healey in to do bodywork on it.
>Does anybody out there use car dollies in their garage to move Healeys or like
>sized car around? I just bought four car dollies from Harbor Freight. Each
>dolly has four cast iron wheels. Last night I placed my Cobra (same wieght as
>my Healey) on all four and could not budge the car. I then placed the front
>wheels on the ground and left the dollies under the rear. The car could then
>be pushed but just barely.
>I was under the (false) impression that cars could be easily pushed around the
>garage floor with these dollies. I was careful and made sure that all wheels
>were in the same direction too. I was leaning on the car super hard and it
>took about 15 minutes to move it just 20 feet! Also, I may be fat, but I think
>that I'm strong enough to move a car as I used to squat over 400 pounds.
>Well,
>I wasn't expecting the old dry-ice puck from high school physics class but I
>was
>expecting it to move much more easily than it did. Obviously there is a lot
>more friction than with just the tires on the ground.
>
>Therefore, my questions are:
>1.)Do I have some cheapo dollies and others work better?
>2.) Should I disassemble the wheels and grease them to reduce friction?
>3.) Should I just flood the floor with water and leave the garage door open
>this
>winter so that I could easily slide the cars around on ice?
>
>Randy Dickson
>Healey Archaeologist
>63 BJ7
>66 Cobra replica
>02 Mini Cooper
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