Is your Cabinet on wheels ?

[joeblade]

I assume that most of the cabs that people are building are on castor wheels of some form or another ?

Else, how do you go about moving your cab. With a decent size monitor and 3/4" mdf, they must be pretty darn heavy.
Or do you just not move it ?

My w.i.p cab will most probably have to be easily re-locatable, but I was just wondering how non-moveable, a cab on wheels can be made - with 4 people hammering away on it !

[2slk]

 As far as I can tell, most people build cabs without wheels. There are some who do have wheels but they generally seem to be the lockable type. I can't comment on stability.

 I am putting wheels on my cab but only at the back and the design is such that they only support the weight of the cab when the cab itself is tilted backwards. Otherwise, the cab sits on it's own square, stable base.

[Nailz]

I have casters on mine, they came with the ability to lock as well, which would come in handy on a hard floor.  Mine sits on my carpet and even without locking the wheels, it really goes nowhere, the cabinet is more than heavy enough to maintain it's stability.

I can't imagine trying to move a cabinet around without them, I have a PacMan cab and that thing is next to impossible to move anywhere!

[Jakobud]

I wish I would have put casters on mine.  It's a beast to move...

[Odonadon]

I put castors on mine.  The cab had little wheels that you could use if you tipped the cab back a bit, but essentially useless for positioning purposes.

I put 4 heavy duty castors on mine, and regularily move it - it's on a carpeted floor that I need to move to vacuum.  I'm also tall, so the extra bit of height it adds is nice for me

I ended up carrying my cab from my basement to the main floor by myself - lifted the thing right off the floor with nothing to support it.  I wasn't aware I was doing this until my moving partner informed me.  I'm glad I didn't give myself a hernia.  Once it was on the main floor, I put the TV and guts in - stuff too fragile to be banging around while going upstairs .

In short, the castors made the whole thing WAY easier to position.  It's a VERY good idea to put them on.

Odonadon

[Xphile]

also do a search for castors or wheels, there was a discussion about 4 months ago here..good info.. (maybe 6:-)

[Bill_S]

My cabinet is on non-locking casters.
It's sitting on carpet and I've not had any issues with it moving around.

[Odonadon]

My cabinet is on non-locking casters.
It's sitting on carpet and I've not had any issues with it moving around.

Yes, mine's on non-locking castors as well.  You'll find the cab will be heavy enough to sit in the carpet without moving.  No need for locking wheels.

Odonadon

[DeathMonk]

My cabinet is on non-locking casters--it's on a concrete floor.  It only moves when retards come over and go crazy playing a game.

[unclet]

Mine definitely has castors on it.   The front casters are non-lockable 3" swivel (rotate 360) and the rear casters are lockable 3" fixed (do not rotate).     Having the front ones rotate and the back ones fixed help when moving the thing around....you basically can take corners/turn well.  IF the back castors swivel as well as the front, then you cabinet would be pretty hard to keep going in a straight line.

I could not imagine moving my cabinet without them since it is real heavy.  I would scratch the hell out of my tile if I pushed my cabinet around without the castors and I would not prefer to tilt my cabinet backwards since the TV and computer would move around (not to mention putting stress on various parts of the cabinet frame which were not meant to hold the stress).

[Sasquatch!]

Locking castors here.