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Attached is a photo of the solution I ended up with to add four casters.

First, I cut and tightly fitted four wood backing blocks from corner to corner between the flange and the base plate of the station.

I then drilled five holes per caster into the flange, and screwed the angled base plate of the caster into the backing block with five long wood screws.

Although I could have used bolts,  the screws appear to be more than adequate.

P.S. The wheel hook has nothing to do with the casters. It's an accessory for the station that is fixed to it's side in one of several precut square holes. It allows you to hang spare grinding wheels on the side.

Thanks for your replies and suggestions.

Having considered the points you bring up, I think I would want both the existing fixed feet and castors, the latter preferably mounted beneath the stand so that they are out of the way.

The way I see it, in theory, the fixed feet could be raised until the castors bear the load, and once the stand rolled into position, could be lowered again until the load shifts back to the fixed feet.

I'll know soon enough as I've ordered the stand and it should be arriving before the end of the week. My local dealer confirmed that there are indeed four wheel hooks included.

Greetings all,

I want to install screw-in caster wheels for the TS-740 Sharpening Station I'm planning to buy, but I haven't found any spec for this on the Tormek web site.

Does anyone know what the required thread size is?