8" Top Plate Swivel Caster with Cast Iron Wheel and Face Brake (FBC) - 170CA08201S01FBC

About This Caster - 170CA08201S01FBC

Set this 8-inch Empire 170 cast iron swivel with an FBC face brake on the heaviest foundry or oven cart corner that has to steer in tight space, then park and hold.

A face brake presses a shoe against the wheel to stop it, holding the heaviest loaded cart on its spot. The FBC brake is the alternate face-brake style with a tighter swivel radius, for a heavy cart that maneuvers in close quarters. At 8 inches the large wheel clears the biggest obstacles while steering, and the cast iron wheel holds from -100 to 800°F where rubber and poly cannot go, with the trade that it is hard, noisy, and damages a soft floor. The kingpinless design carries shock without a central kingpin to fail. It runs on a roller bearing, bolts on a 4 by 4-1/2-inch top plate at a 9-1/2-inch mount height, and holds from -100 to 800°F.

Ideal applications

• 8-inch cast iron FBC-braked swivel for tight-quarters foundry parking
• FBC face brake stopping an 8-inch iron wheel at extreme temperature
• Tight-radius kingpinless metal swivel clearing big obstacles then locking

For the wider-radius face brake instead, the 170CA08201S01FBB uses the FBB style.

Pairs with: plain Empire 170 cast iron swivels on the rolling corners and this braked caster on a parking corner.

Wrong fit? Need the FBB brake or a total lock? See the FBB-brake 170CA08201S01FBB and the total-lock 170CA08201S01FBBL.

Also in this family: the 6-inch cast iron FBC-brake 170CA06201SFBC, or the full Albion collection.