Industry & Company
How to Grease an Industrial Roller Bearing Caster
Keeping your casters greased and in their optimal operational condition is paramount to getting the most out of your mobility investment. In this...
ANSI ICWM Caster Standards, a Key to Caster Safety and Performance
Caster Specialists features casters that are designed and tested to ANSI ICWM standards. This article covers the basics of the standards and why t...
Hard vs. Soft Tread Casters: Which is Right for You?
Casters come in an assortment of shapes and sizes. As a result, it can be difficult to choose the best fit for your application. There are two high...
Wheel Choices
Believe it or not, when it comes to casters there is a lot you need to know and understand. Specifically, you need to know how they are different ...
Caster Basics: Mount Types
Our caster basics series has reviewed almost all of the elements of a caster from the (literal) ground up from wheels to rigs. Now it’s time to cov...
Caster Basics: Rigs
It's time to learn more about the other element that makes a caster a caster: the rig. Also called a fork or horn, the rig holds the wheel in place...
9 Tips & Tricks for Quiet Carts
When you are at the grocery store and you get that noisy, shaky, hard to push cart, it’s one of the most frustrating experiences: all you ...
Bigger is better, right?
We're talking about caster wheel size this time. I’m sure you can remember a time when this happened to you:
You’re at the grocery store getting s...
Boy is that cart hard to push!
We’ve all had it happen, a cart is loaded up, you go to push it, and nothing. It ended up taking a lot more force to get the cart rolling than you...
Caster Mounting - Part 5 - Top Plates
Without a doubt, a top plate is the most common means of mounting a caster. From small to large, light to heavy, top plates provide the most sec...