Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
Do you ever ever see a worn out skate board in the trash?
If you are handy with tools, you could make a DIY type of gizmo like the link (above) to that other one using a pair of skate board wheels or roller blade wheels.
At stores like Good Will or similar charity stores you often see semi-worn luggage with wheels for cheap. The wheels from one of those attached to a board might work?
I have no clue if this would handle a 40 pound plus bike box. With the wheels rotating instead of fixed in a straight line, on sloping surfaces it could roll away from you and fall over. I thought of this because where I used to work they had some of these for computers but nobody used them and they were eventually discarded. I think it would work better if there was a way to make two of the wheels stay in a straight line, or maybe all four. If you can't make the wheels stay in a straight line, I think this would not work because the bike box would be too tall to handle.
http://www.amazon.com/VIVO-Computer-.../dp/B074P76TBW
Don't use luggage wheels, they are cheap and fall apart. Cheap unsealed bearings, the urethane separates from the plastic core, they fall apart. I just repaired a quality luggage carryon roller, replaced the factory wheels with inline skate wheels salvaged from skates being thrown out, even cheap inline skate bearings are plenty good, and these wheels had high-grade bearings. Look for larger diameter skate wheels.
I would fabricate a "seat" from plywood that one lower end of the box would sit in. The sides would each have a hole near the bottom, into which you would poke a screwdriver, then push a threaded axle through from one side to the other, put on a spacer washer, wheels, and two nuts to be locked against each other on each side. The axle holds the seat in place on the cardboard, the holes in the cardboard won't take much vertical load but they'll only yield until the seat takes the load from the bottom. Put a handle on the other end of the box, lift and roll.
I was about to joke that a hoverboard (from Back to the Future part III) would work well, but that's actually now a term for a small foot platform with two wheels, self-balancing motorized, usually about $100; One of those that no longer works electrically might fit well under the bike box.