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My biggest concern would be finding stable casters. The casters on my
roll around tool chest easily hold hundreds of pounds and the brakes
lock securely, but there is no way to stop the two swivel casters from
turning.
If you take a look at your tool chest again, I am pretty sure you will
see
that two are fixed and two are swivel with brakes.
I built a cabinet that fits under my contractors saw and is the size of
the saw table including extensions, with an extended portion under the
motor. I put 6 swivel casters under it. The cabinet contains a planer,
a scroll saw, a couple of grinders, a couple of routers, a sabre saw, a
power saw, and probably a few things I've forgotten.
Lots of weight, no brakes, the cabinet never moves. In fact, it's
pretty hard to push around :-).
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BNSF = Build Now, Seep Forever
Second the motion.
I put my contractors saw on a 2'x4' base with lots of drawers with lots of
iron in them on 6 3" diameter swivel castors rubber tired. I planned to
make some wedges to drive under the bottom to hold it in place. Never
needed them.
It took a lot of whole body english to move that beast from one end of the
shop to the other last night.
Did the same for my workbench, weighs about 300 pounds. It doesn't move
when I plane tree pieces to put on my lathe.
Walt C