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1. 
   Jfrostjr | Oct 14, 2006 03:59pm | #1

   I have an HTC mobile base on my Unisaw (2002). It works!

   I can move the saw and a cantilevered 32" outfeed/router table with one hand.

   Frosty

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   EdHarrow | Oct 14, 2006 04:53pm | #2

   I have Delta base under mine (30ish" fence), and it is fine.  I have HTC bases under other stuff, and had one under my previous contractor's saw. 

   The Delta was a simple bolt together.  The HTCs all required some degree of messing.  The one for the contractor's saw needed the holes for the brake screws to be retapped.  The one under my drillpress is wiggly.  (A drillpress is pretty top heavy, of course.)

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   Woodmann | Oct 15, 2006 06:23am | #4

   Ed

    

   Thanks for your comments regarding the Delta mobile base.   I have heard like comments from others.  Also have heard similar comments about tht H TC base.   I only want to do this once and make sure that it is the right one for my machine.  I also have a Delta D J 20 jointer  a Delta sanding center and a Delta heavy duty jointer  that have H T C bases and there seems to be no problem with these but not the weight  that the Unisaw has. 

    

   Again thanks for your comments

                                                   woodmann

3. 
   tinkerer2 | Oct 15, 2006 06:18am | #3

   Sounds like you are already a good ways to having a good carriage.  Are the wheels bad?  Could you just get some good wheels or castors?

    

   I have the PM66 with the PM carriage.  It works OK but I don't usually move it around with one hand.  At 600 lbs., one has to overcome a lot of inertia just getting it started.  I would like to see a setup where the machine is raised up on the wheels and then set down on its feet again to be used.  My MM16 band saw is that way.
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   Woodmann | Oct 15, 2006 07:43am | #5

   tinerer2

     Thanks for your comments regarding the Unisaw delema.  I probably do have the wrong casters on the base.   I have heard that sometimes steel casters are better than rubber.   Sometimes if left in one spot too long they get flat spot on the bottom of the rubber.  .  I should take my base to a caster specialty company and get some ideas there.  Three or four of the best casters in the world  have to be a lot less than purchasing a whole new base.   I wonder if 3"  wheels are sufficient. 

                                                          Woodmann

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   dgreen | Oct 15, 2006 07:51am | #6

   3" should be sufficient, the wheels on the Delta bases are 3" and of a hard material.
   Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb

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   tinkerer2 | Oct 17, 2006 05:12am | #7

   I have the powermatic mobil base with (I think) 3 inch castors.  I don't move it around with one hand but it moves satisfactorily.