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Hello Julian,
I appreciate your comments. About 10 days ago I started a new thread in this section doing a 'show and tell' about a dolly I made for the C9.25. In that case the existing tripod did not have stabilising crossbars at the base, and so I made a simple wooden 'T' shape to capture and hold the legs and preventing them from moving and splaying further. The 3" wheels I used then were rated to 50kg each, but to my thinking (say for my C14) the leg under the polar axis would take close to 40kg and the other two about 25kg each. This makes me uneasy since I always like to over-engineer when possible. So heavier wheels etc. would be called for if making a frame for the C14 and the cost would soar... Also a frame such as this adds to the height - in the previous case 120mm.
For my purposes with the C14, I didn't want it any higher, but I wanted it mobile. I have a nice flat floor. Imagine my joy when I found these little dollies, and found they were constructed of solid pressed steel, rated to 90kg each, and only raised the height by(say) 20mm. (In the unlikely event that anything goes wrong, it only has 20mm to drop or sag.) No drilling, scewing or painting required, just a few minutes to fit, and only $30 all up. WOW!
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