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Subject: Re: Replacing wheels on map cabinets?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:54:56 -1000
From: Ross Togashi <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]

Aloha Ilene,

I believe Mayline has taken over the Hamilton line of map cases.  If you
go to the Mayline website you will see the Hamiltons beging sold along
side Maylines.   http://www.mayline.com/filing/large_format.pdf

In my experience, I've sometimes found the wheels (and ball bearings)
are fine.  It's the metal parts around it that have gotten bent out of
shape that creates the problem.  Careful re-bending of the frame and or
a rubber mallet may convince it to straighten out.  I have not tried to
replace wheels that have gone bad.

Good luck on replacing the drawer wheels and let us all know how it goes.

Aloha,
Ross
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Ross Togashi, Map Technician
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Hamilton Library - Map Collection
2550 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI   96822
ph. (808) 956-6199
email: [log in to unmask]
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/departments/maps/index.html
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----- Original Message -----
From: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:09 am
Subject: Replacing wheels on map cabinets?
To: [log in to unmask]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Replacing wheels on map cabinets?
> Date:   Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:55:27 -0600
> From:   Ilene Raynes <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization:   University of Colorado
> To:     'Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum' <MAPS-
> [log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Hi all-
>
> We have several map drawers that are very hard to open mainly because
> the wheels in the back of the drawers are old and bent. We'd like to
> contact a map cabinet vendor to see if replacing wheels is even
> possible. It looks like the majority of our cases are from the
> HamiltonManufacturing Company. I did a google search for them and
> did not find
> them. They are also not listed as one of the cabinet vendors on the
> WAMLwebsite (see http://www.waml.org/maptools.html#mapcabs). Any
> ideas if
> they still exist? Or does anyone out there think contacting a
> differentmap cabinet vendor would help? Could the wheels maybe be
> interchangeable?
> Thanks-
>
> Ilene
>
> Ilene Raynes
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences and Map Library
> Campus Box 184
> Boulder, CO 80309
> (303)-492-4487 (phone)
> (303)-735-4879 (fax)
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