Have any of you ever made a Linoleum Roller?

SMinWi · Mar 4, 2012

I'm going to be putting down a new floor. I'll need a 100# roller. I can find new ones for over $200 or i could rent one for $20,00 a day. I'm putting down 16" x 16" Durastone and i may not get it all down in one day, so renting one would be a pain. I'm thinking i can make one that will work good.

Gun guru · Mar 4, 2012

What about a 3 gallon bucket with the top rim tab circles cut off. Then fill with gravel 1/2 way, then concrete to the top. It might work.
Or...What about a piece of cold rolled steel 4" diameter 12" long. That would weigh in at about 50 pounds. Just be sure it is cold rolled and not hot rolled. Hot rolled has the mill slag on it and would mess up a new floor.

JDseller · Mar 4, 2012

I made one out of a six inch piece of PVC pipe. I centered a piece of 1/2 rod in the concrete. I found two butter bowl lids that just fit the outside of the PVC pipe. I measure and used a leather hole punch to put a 1/2 hole right in the center. The lids held the 1/2 rod centered while I poured the pipe full of concrete. I then used an old push mower handle for the roller handle. I made it over thirty years ago and we still use it every now and then.

SMinWi · Mar 4, 2012

(quoted from post at 01:31:05 03/05/12) I made one out of a six inch piece of PVC pipe. I centered a piece of 1/2 rod in the concrete. I found two butter bowl lids that just fit the outside of the PVC pipe. I measure and used a leather hole punch to put a 1/2 hole right in the center. The lids held the 1/2 rod centered while I poured the pipe full of concrete. I then used an old push mower handle for the roller handle. I made it over thirty years ago and we still use it every now and then.

I like your idea, and i bet it will work good.

JDseller · Mar 4, 2012

I have a better way now to make the end caps. If you have a hole saw set then take the one that will fit the inside of the pipe you are going to use. Cut the plug out of a piece of plywood. Then use the center hole and drill/saw the hole you need for your cross rod. It will be centered and done much easier than measuring. I do this to make steel centers to repair round balers rolls.

old · Mar 4, 2012

Many years ago when I was still driving truck I took a new tire I had just mounted and use it in my house to do what you need. Worked well and didn't cost me any thing since I had to have it for the truck any how

RWK in WI · Mar 5, 2012

The floor rollers that I have used were always small sections and
not one long roller. The reason was that as you turn to change
directions a long roller must slide and that can cause scratches
while the small sections can rotate at different rates and not scuff.

One time I saw a roller made of a bunch of small maybe
lawnmower wheels below a heavy channel with a support between
every two wheels to the channel. They added rocks to the channel
to add weights. The wheels avoided scuffing. If you had a
source of wheels it might be easy.

Chester · Mar 5, 2012

You could make up something like the die at the bottom, and fill with concrete. The one pictured is 3", but you could always go larger.

Chester · Mar 5, 2012

(quoted from post at 08:30:54 03/05/12) You could make up something like the die at the bottom, and fill with concrete. The one pictured is 3", but you could always go larger.

Texasmark1 · Mar 6, 2012

No but it sounds like a great idea.

Have any of you ever made a Linoleum Roller?

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