@Mr. Argumentor need a metal nerd design review because I'm a metal dumbass
My kiln needs a base, and I want to build a rolling one. Here's what I've sketched up.
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1" square structural tubing, which seems like it should be strong enough, but might be completely overkill and maybe I should be making it out of L bracket or something instead, The extra pieces in the corners are for the casters. .125" wall thickness tube isn't much more expensive than .063" so I'll probably go with the heavy stuff, I'd feel more confident tapping holes in it to mount the casters.
There's also gonna be sheet metal attached to the top of this thing. The bottom metal is rusted out of the kiln, and I figure it's easier to put the sheet steel on the cart as a single square than to fuck around cutting it into a decagon and bending up the corners all perfect and everything to replace the stock bottom.
Kiln weighs ~200lbs, figure at most there's another 100 maybe 150lbs of clay and shelves going into it. The casters I have are allegedly good for 250lbs/pop so I should be good there.
Thoughts/comments?