(which is one of those that's configured either to carry stuff at a tilt or flat)
wheels (sheet metal sides have become all warbled out from their metal axles)
I immediately thought about shopping for a new one - and saw the Guitar Center's "Stupid Deal Of The Day" was one of these for only $120 including shipping... But the thing is that I could tell that the wheels were made out of that crappy plastic that gets brittle after a few years and cracks into bits.
The one I have (which is old but not very rusty, and I believe it came out of my mother-in-law's storage building when she had to go to assisted living) is thicker and heavier metal and the through axle appears to be a half inch with regular washers and cotter pins.
On one of my trailers, the wheel on the trailer jack got destroyed because (my fault of course) I didn't notice that the load had taken the trailer down so low that the trailer jack wheel was running on the highway. Harbor Freight had an excellent wheel that fit perfectly (though it actually came on something else rather than being sold separately as with most of their wheels), and is actually a heavier duty wheel than the original. I've been really pleased with it. I'm thinking that even if I spend $38 (you know sales tax) on a pair of wheels for this older (but otherwise sturdy) two wheeler, that it will cost less than even a bargain priced "pretty good" new one, and it will be better than many new ones, particularly since the wheels will be the same excellent (is it okay to describe something "titanic" without everyone thinking of a sinking ship?) quality as the one that I purchased for my trailer jack (as it appears that maybe the same size and axle diameter will fit the two wheeler as fit the trailer jack).
I sold a highly-valued completely working (no issues) early 1970s Ampeg tube amp ("Portaflex", and the most desirable version) that had been hoping to sell without advertising it (which I did) which these days is really only appropriate (particularly one like this with original tubes - whereby someone wouldn't want to be bumping it around) for studio use to achieve an authentic vintage sound, my only other amp is a tiny but powerful 12-inch Polytone (which I used for a European tour back in the early '80s... ...something I could hand carry and something which was small enough to put in aluminum box for throwing underneath airplanes), but my replacement amp is a modern Ampeg with a 15-inch speaker which I can carry for "a ways", but not really a quarter mile from a parking area to a performance area. I just waited for this post and it weighs 48 lb with its power cord removed and the cord stuffed in my guitar case... so about 50 lbs.
I didn't weigh my bass guitars in their cases, but they're probably another 20 lbs. - as I would likely bungee them to the upward handle of the contraption for carting, and there would even be a little bit more additional weight due to the guitar stand and who knows what else that I'd be pulling along. I believe this amp is deserving and justifying of a two-wheeler to move it about (though the "event golf cart" thing is actually the most desirable, obviously
).Anyway, it had rained the day before the event (which made - fortunately only a few - areas muddy, and I had run this thing through our parking area - which was that weird gray dust mixed with gravel, which sort of cemented itself to the hard rubber on the wheels, so this is the perfect time to remove them, discard them, and replace them, and avoiding chipping off that concrete like substance from them).
Again, I think this is cheaper and will be sturdier than most of these things (at least at the price point level I'd be willing to consider.)
bloke "the classic anti-consumer cheapskate... and maybe because I've been on the selling side of merchandise for most of my life, though it said that salesman are some of the easiest people to talk into buying things"
... even if I stepped up the money a little bit and got this 8 inch (yet still narrow enough to fit on the existing welded axle) $21 ea. wheel, to better negotiate turf and gravel...
https://www.harborfreight.com/8-inch-pn ... 42485.html
Of course those totally-collapsible light-gauge ones are always attractive (due to those portability and size features), but if I carry 75 lbs. on one of those things for more than a couple of times, I think they would be ready for the trash.
That said, Fat Bastard (Miraphone modell 98 - though the handmade sheet metal tuba itself is only about 24 lbs.)
in it's Jakob Winter hard case is right at 50 lbs., and there's no way in hell that I'm going to haul that thing around in a padded sack (whereby it's next owner will do as they please).
...though - as previously seen in my posts and responses - my view of music stands is totally the opposite, whereby I'm only willing to haul around a KM101 (as all that thing is asked to do is to hold up a stack of papers or (if not fastened into a book) maybe even only two or three pieces of paper at a time).
this? No, I just don't think so...
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/stupid? ... nUEALw_wcB
...or are we (not even intending to do so) trolling each other...?? 
