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Folks - thanks for all the comments.  It was a fun little project and, as usual with these kinds of simple-on-paper projects, it had one character-building moment.  I got all the rollers mounted to the plywood stands, using wood screws and a flat-head bit in my cordless drill (what did we ever do without cordless drills...) and then put all four stands on the runner and sighted down the row and phooey (or words to that effect), they were all slightly misaligned.  The clearance holes in the Al pieces (I just ran a drill though the already threaded holes) are probably 1/64 to 1/32 larger in diameter than the shaft of the wood screws and in tightening the screws down, there's enough torque to move the Al piece ever so slightly -- so I backed all the screws out a quarter turn and re-tightened them with a hand-held screwdriver and a firm grip on the Al pieces.  That seemed to work.

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