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Husky Workbench Caster Feet

The flat robot vacuum assigned to clean the floors around here would occasionally get stuck under the leg of my Husky workbench-as-desk and fail to complete its mission. Living in the future makes solving that problem a matter of minutes:

Husky workbench caster feet - installed
Husky workbench caster feet – installed

The upper rim captures the locked-in-place wheel in a 35×25 mm recess atop the middle 45×35 mm slab, with a 2.5 mm cork layer on the bottom. Laser-cut, of course, glued with ordinary yellow wood glue, and clamped for about half of a Squidwrench remote meeting.

Raising the desk by 5.5 mm gives the Flat One juuust enough clearance to scuttle under there:

Husky workbench caster feet - vacuum clearance
Husky workbench caster feet – vacuum clearance

That was easy …