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Originally Posted by marty in Ohio
I found four skates at a swap meet in Sandusky, Ohio last spring for $40. I just laid up my '30 town sedan yesterday and used the skates for the first time. They work well if all the casters are heading the same way. A friend showed me that if you pry them a little with a 4 foot piece of pipe till all the wheels are going the same direction, the car pushes quite easily.
Marty
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I found these new skates did not have a problem changing direction. But when I put them together, I gave the ball bearings a shot of WD40 and that seemed to make them work a lot better. Also my neighbor's pickup did not have it's engine at this time so that also may have helped it move around.
Ya one of these days I need to do something with that old one lung'er. But that thing has a lot of history in our family in that it pumped water for us in the 1940-50's.