How to Best Maintain Your Magliner Hand Truck or Hand Cart

How to Best Maintain Your Magliner Hand Truck or Hand Cart Magliner hand trucks and hand carts enjoy an international reputation as industry leaders in material handling. Magline has developed this reputation by producing some of the most reliable, most versatile, smoothest, hardiest, and sturdiest equipment on the market. However, even the best Magliner hand trucks, hand carts, and dollies need to be given a basic level of care to function at their highest level. If you take care of them, they’ll take care of you.

A good care-taking schedule is as follows: Daily Care Every day you use your hand truck or hand cart, whether consecutively or not, give it a basic once-over. Look it over entirely for any damage. If the tires are pneumatic, check their pressure, and also give the brakes a test. You don’t want to find out you have an issue with your brakes with a 300-pound load on the hand truck at an incline.

Every Few Weeks If you are a stickler for the care and upkeep of your material handling equipment, and that’s certainly an OK thing to be, the following checks can be made once a week. Otherwise, once a fortnight or so should be sufficient. First, be sure that the handle fasteners are well-secured and fastened down tight. Do the same for the fasteners securing the nose plate to the frame and handle of the hand truck or hand cart.

Every Few Months

Once again, for the equipment-perfectionists, these inspection points can be checked out once a month, but should certainly be looked over at least once every two to three months. When tire pressure has been confirmed sufficient, check the tires themselves for any cracking or delaminating. If any damage is present, replace the tires. Inspect the joints, wheel bearings, fasteners, and axle cotter pins. Determine whether a brake adjustment or tightening is necessary.

Every Year At least once a year, grease and oil all of the moving parts. That includes the wheel bearings and the axles. While greasing the bearings and axles, inspect them for wear. All of that is especially important for a more heavy duty hand truck carrying bulkier loads. Finally, give your Magliner hand truck, hand cart, or dolly a good wash-down, a power wash if possible.

Convertible and Specialized Hand Trucks For specialty hand trucks like convertible/collapsible models, keep in mind that in horizontal (or sometimes incline) positions it’s harder to see the front wheels. That can make them more susceptible to foreign object damage. And, like convertible hand trucks, specialized models like appliance hand trucks generally have a set of hard wheels along with the inflatable ones.

Remember that even though they are hard, it doesn’t make them impervious. Inspect them as you would pneumatics.

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