Bora Portamate Mobile Base Kit PM-1100 – Heavy Duty, Universal, Customizable, Adjustable Rolling Set, Dolly Roller Frame and Casters for Moving Equipment, Tools, Machines – 400 lb Capacity
Original price was: $49.98.$44.99Current price is: $44.99.
Price: $49.98 - $44.99
(as of Nov 05, 2025 14:06:19 UTC – Details)
Bora Portamate Mobile Base Kit PM-1100 can be customized to bring mobility to any machine. If you need more room in your garage or workshop, the PM-1100 universal mobile base caster kit is your best solution. It’s exactly what you need to make your heavy machinery, bandsaws, table saws, drill presses, safes, cabinets, or anything else – easily moveable, regardless of its footprint size. It lets you keep stationary work equipment out of the way until needed, freeing space for large projects and cleaning. This fully customized mobile base uses corner wheel pieces with predrilled holes to insure the perfect fit for any machine. This dolly wheel kit is sturdy and easy to assemble, plus there’s no size capacity limit, so it fits virtually any large piece of machinery. The hard plastic, 3 inch wheels at all four corners make it easy to maneuver. Roll one tool in; roll another tool out. The foot-operated levers lock machines to the floor. This base features a durable power-coated finish and has a maximum weight capacity of 400 pounds. All wheels and hardware parts are included, but plywood is sold separately. Add it to your shopping cart now!
Supports Up To 400lbs: Easily move heavy shop equipment – perfect for a table saw, bandsaw & workbenches. Built tough for securely moving large tools in workshops.
Easy-Install Mounting Design: Quickly attach this Bora mobile base by securing each pre-drilled corner to a piece of plywood – move your tools in minutes.
Custom Size Flexibility: Build your exact base size using standard 3/4″ plywood (not included) as your mobile tool base – from benchtop tools to large machinery.
Quick-Lock Wheel System: Control equipment stability instantly with easy-access foot levers – premium 3″ casters ensure reliable mobility in any workshop environment
Efficient Space Use: Transform any workshop into a flexible workspace – roll equipment exactly where you need it & store it compactly when projects are done to increase your productivity.
Customers say
Customers praise the material handling truck’s high-quality heavy-gauge steel construction and find it easy to assemble. The product works well with heavy equipment like band saws and drill presses, and customers appreciate its ease of movement, particularly when moving planers around the shop. They consider it well worth the cost and find it convenient to use. The lockability feature receives mixed reviews, with several customers reporting that the wheels don’t stay locked down.
Amazon Customer –
High quality construction, works amazing
I have other mobile bases for my table saw and bandsaw that work well; one from the mfr of the Table saw and another one universal mfr. but you have to verify that the rails will configure to the correct width and depth. I bought the Bora base for my jointer (which has a homemade frame) because it is completely flexible to the size you need. If I had to do over again, I would definitely have purchased for my bandsaw because the one I have is really too narrow but I made it work by not doubling up the bolts on the rail. It does bow due to that and I have to keep “jacking it back up.” With the Bora system, you do have to supply your own plywood base, but the construction is solid and the adaptability to odd sizes is perfect. For my jointer, I actually used two 20″ x 8″ pieces of plywood and then attached them with a 2″ x 4″ to make 41″ length. I saw this application by researching this on the internet before I bought it. Cheap and simple. I will be using this system for all my other tools. And this system was the cheapest out there.
Le Brew –
Provides needed flexibility in small single-car garage working area
First off, he will be required to create a base plate for this mobile tool base. Being an avid home woodworker, I had no problem in creating a base out of three-quarter inch plywood. I would imagine that if you were planning to buy this then you should have no problem in creating the necessary plywood base plate. With that said, once constructed, the mobile base is very solid. It has good clearance, easy to move with a load on it and once adjusted, it provides a very solid foundation for your tool, stand and tool. Mine was used to provide mobility for a bench grinder on a small stand. Having a one car garage and a small apartment requires flexibility and ingenuity in use of and storage of tools. The location where I store the bench grinder is not where I want to use the bench grinder so I have to have a method to move it. I had been dragging it from the storage location to where I use it, but that was not the best solution. Haven’t seen these mobile base plates, I thought that would be a very is viable solution. Now that it has been installed it’s very easy to move the grinder around the garage once the car is out. The mobile base plate is very easy to use. Simply step down on the levers for lifting the solid feet off of the floor, roll to where you need to have it, and then reset the feet back onto the floor. One feature that would make the operation immensely more simple would be to have a crossbar mechanism and a single lever to lift the feet vice using separate levers for both sides. It works, but it’s slightly clumsy, of course doing so would increase the cost so it’s a trade-off. All in all I’m very satisfied with the capabilities in the construction of the mobile tool base. If you were like me with limited space and need to move things around a lot. I highly recommend this device.
Bob Morse –
Defective parts that vendor cannot replace till Nov-Dec timeframe
Levers to allow wheels to lift stand and move have to be held down and do not lock. Contacted vender and they were aware that newer items had this issue. That was 2 months ago and new parts were due to be shipped 4 days ago. No it has been pushed to end of Nov. No offer of replacing stand as there is a goodchane new one would have same issue. This is a bad QA issue and shipping a defective product that is know to be defective is not good for business. If you are thinking about this stand it is good quality but due to the QA issues and inability of vendor to fix then stay away from it for at least 8 months for them to get supply chain issues back on track and defective products out of the pipeline.
DocEE –
Wish I had discovered this before I bought a different mobile base!
I originally bought the HTC2000 Adjustible Mobil Base kit and extra extender kit to make a base for my compound miter saw which is on a stand that is 28” wide by 63” long. The HTC2000 and extender kit went together fine and moved the saw around great. The problem I had with that arrangement was every time I went to use the saw I tripped over the mobile base frame because it was a giant rectangle frame. The stand that the saw sits on has upside down V-shaped flared out legs. Between the legs the saw sits on a pair of parallel bars that connect to the top of the Upside down V – so they are more centered than the full width of the legs at the floor level. I kept trying to figure out how to modify that mobile base unit so the front part of the frame wouldn’t be right where you need to stand to use the saw.I started looking around on Amazon again at mobile bases and discovered the Portamate PM-1100 so decided to give it a try. Glad I did! I just finished assembling it and it works great. I used some 1×6 pressure treated boards for the 28” short ends and a 63” piece of 2×4 down the center forming large “H” configuration. I connected the boards into the “H” using some carriage bolts. Plopped the saw on top of the big “H” and it works perfectly! Rolls around very nicely and no more tripping over the frame.A few suggestions for assembly…when you are assembling the corner pieces, drill the holes a little bigger than the size of the bolt. If you have a drill press use that. I didn’t get some of my holes straight at first and had trouble lining up the holes for the top/bottom plates until I reamed out the holes I drilled crooked. Also it would have been great to have a second set of hands available especially when I was fighting the crooked holes but I eventually used the bench vice and that helped. Plan out and then double check your plan where you want the swivel wheels to be – both on the short end or on the lon end. I thought I had it figured out until it was all together and I realized for such a long piece it would be better to have the swivel wheels on the short end. So After struggling with all my crooked holes, I had to take it all apart and put it together again with the wheels in different corners. Went together easier the second time! Lastly, be aware that there isn’t much clearance under the bottom plate, only about a half inch, so if your floor isn’t level or you are moving a long piece down a signtly sloped floor, you will scrape bottom.I plan to buy another Portamate PM-1100 for my lathe and configure it like I did for the miter saw, just not sure what to do with the HTC2000 now but I’m sure in time I will find a tool that needs wheels. Good luck – this was a good project for me, a novice just setting up a shop.
Mikael Högberg –
Well built smart solution for moving machines etc. Nice that there are multiple options to place the wheels so that the levers can be placed where they aren’t too much in the way. A bit pricy and needs some adjustments when mounting on thick base sheets.
Dirk Janse van Noordwyk –
Solid construction and makes it easy to move around heavy woodworking equipment.
Jose juan davalos esquivel –
Primeras impresiones, exelente muy practico y facil dea minipular, la use para una sierra de banco Knova de 12″ y 3½ HP con un peso aprox. de 160 kl. ay que esperar con el tiempo si sigue funcionando igual, sies asi comprare otro set para mi canteadora
Edwin –
Vy innovative. Price can be lower.
TheOliver –
Bought this for my ~100kg bandsaw. Works a treat.Bit fiddly to assemble but not rocket science. I was surprised the top section of each corner – the grey triangles – didn’t fit that well against the bottom sections. Like neither was quite square. But it seems to make no difference.Feels extremely robust and solid, even with a cheap bit of melamine coated chipboard as the base (an Ikea PAX wardrobe side!).I avoided the cheaper copies of this based on the reviews and glad I went for this.