Bought a $60 seam roller from Home Depot, what a waste

I picked up that blue handled seam roller from Home Depot for $60 thinking it would be a step up from my old one. Thing started wobbling after just two jobs in Cleveland. The bearing went bad and now it's worse than the $15 one I got at a flea market. Anyone else had luck with a specific brand that holds up longer?

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christopherh798d ago

Got that same blue handle one, same thing happened to me. The bearing is just pressed in cheap metal, it's gonna fail. I'd say check out the Marshalltown stainless steel one. It's like $10 more but the bearing is actually sealed and I've put mine through at least ten jobs without any wobble. Also, if you want to save the one you got, you can pop that bearing out and replace it with a skateboard bearing from a hardware store for like $3, just needs a little grease.

the_tessa8d ago

Man, I used to think all those cheap blue handled ones were basically the same... but @christopherh79, you're making me rethink that Marshalltown option for sure.