# Carpenters, handymen, prop makers: I need advice on building a prop milk wagon **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpenters-handymen-prop-makers-i-need-advice-on-building-a-prop-milk-wagon/980728 "2023-03-04T18:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpenters-handymen-prop-makers-i-need-advice-on-building-a-prop-milk-wagon/980728/24 "2023-04-01T17:09:27Z")
Thanks again for all the advice. Here’s how it turned out: > [@DIY and Hobby projects, small to big. Pictures of course](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diy-and-hobby-projects-small-to-big-pictures-of-course/957910/272): > > 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](http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/printer_friendly_posts.asp?TID=5607) 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](https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/red-shed-35-in-wagon-wheel-193520699-1?cm_vc=-10005) I bought for the project.) Based on a suggestion by folks in the other thread, I found some [split shaft collars](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CH3DV5I/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) to hold the wheels onto the axle, but since none were read… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpenters-handymen-prop-makers-i-need-advice-on-building-a-prop-milk-wagon/980728)._