5" Top Plate Rigid Caster with Glass-Filled Polypropylene Wheel and Face Brake (FBB) - 170RT05201SFBB

About This Caster - 170RT05201SFBB

Reach for this 5-inch Empire 170 swivel with an FBB face brake when a mid-weight wet-area cart steers in open space and has to stay put when parked.

The FBB brake is the wider-radius face-brake style, pressing a shoe against the wheel to hold a loaded cart on its spot. The wheel is glass-filled polypropylene, a stiff reinforced plastic rated -20 to 250°F that resists washdown chemicals and corrosion where steel rusts. It is hard with no cushioning, rolls cleanly on smooth floors, and can mark, and at 5 inches it carries up to 1,000 pounds on a roller bearing for manual pushing. The swivel turns on a kingpinless welded raceway with no central pin to loosen, bolts on a 4 by 4-1/2-inch top plate at a 6-1/2-inch mount height, and is zinc plated.

Ideal applications

• 5-inch glass-filled poly FBB-braked swivel up to 1,000 lb in open space
• Wide-radius FBB face brake holding a mid-weight plastic wheel on washdown carts
• Steering 5-inch cart up to 250°F that parks and holds in caustic bays

For a total lock that also holds the swivel, the 170RT05201SFBBL adds a swivel lock.

Pairs with: plain RT swivels on the rolling corners and this braked caster on a parking corner.

Wrong fit? Need a total lock or the tighter brake? See the 5-inch RT total-lock 170RT05201SFBBL and the 5-inch RT FBC-brake 170RT05201SFBC.

Also in this family: the 6-inch RT FBB-brake 170RT06201SFBB, or the full Albion collection.