Older 1/2" shaft boat trailer rollers?

[reelfishin]

I have been looking for a set of replacement trailer rollers for an older trailer. I need 20 new rollers, the old ones are that old white rubber and are hard as a stone.
The trailer is fine otherwise, it just needs new rollers. I can fine 5/8" shaft rollers all over, but haven't seen any of the older types?
These are the rollers that contact the sides of the lower hull, not the keel rollers.

The old rollers are rubber with a pvc bushing in the center that just sits loose in the roller and on the shaft. (The bushing looks like a piece of CPVC pipe).

Does anyone know of a good source?
Is there a conversion bushing available to let me use a newer style roller?

 

[JB]

Re: Older 1/2" shaft boat trailer rollers?

championtrailers.com

 

[rndn]

Re: Older 1/2" shaft boat trailer rollers?

If you can't find them you should be able to make a bushing out of some PVC pipe to compensate for the 1/8 difference in inside diameter.

 

[reelfishin]

Re: Older 1/2" shaft boat trailer rollers?

The existing rollers use a 1/2" cpvc bushing now, I've tried several combinations using pvc to try and come up with an adapter combination to use modern rollers with no luck.
So far the closest thing I can find with a roller that size is those metal strip style bunk rollers, the inner rollers on the one's I saw are the same size but they done use the plastic bushing and I they may tend to bind with weight on them rather than roll. I have a set of them on one trailer here, and they don't work well at all. The rest of the rollers are fine, it's really only the four front rollers that are really bad, I just figured that if I can fine them, I'd do them all since they are all original.