Carpenters, handymen, prop makers: I need advice on building a prop milk wagon

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Thanks again for all the advice.

Here’s how it turned out:

DIY and Hobby projects, small to big. Pictures of course

So here is the completed milk wagon for my wife’s middle school production of Fiddler on the Roof. As I mentioned in the thread linked above, I started with these instructions and made an open box with holes through it for the axle, a 1-1/8 inch dowel. (The odd diameter was dictated by the center holes in the decorative wheels I bought for the project.) Based on a suggestion by folks in the other thread, I found some split shaft collars to hold the wheels onto the axle, but since none were read…