Any recommendations for finding (cheap) replacement wheels on the net.
They'd be ideal for purchasers of posh office chairs, the nice highback ones with arms and leather. We got a pair, having taken a rest in them in the shop (during the third or fourth circuit - lost, disoriented, dehydrated) and been suitably impressed. Lovely chairs, POS castors. POS non-rotating castors. They can make a right mess of your shag pile, I tell you, as they scrape back and forth. Well, Elly's scraped back and forth, mine just swivels as my back is to the wall. I called the support line and fair enough, two new sets of castors arrive in the post two days later. They didn't rotate either. Not just with newness, either, as I'd assumed when fitting the first sets. Designed with stiction in mind, they are. They don't yield to levering apart, they don't give to being heated up or squirty lubed, nor veggie oiled even. I had to pull Elly's old chair out of the trailer on the way to the tip and have the wheels off that. I suppose I could put the three surplus sets of non-rotating bastard castors on eBay, come to think of it. "Inbuilt safety feature, impossible to run over the dog, race down the corridor, safe for children". Sounds like a plan.
Oh, for Christ's sake, you come here asking every asinine question there is, without even attempting to Google first. Now go Google.
