Sheet metal roll 60x600 FM10x20

This type of roller sits in lanes for heavier cartons, stacked plastic crates, tires, white goods and long goods fed in sideways. Home-built applications are just as common: unwinding tables at press brakes, feed lanes into cut-off saws and roller supports in welding fixtures, where the M10 thread makes it easy to bolt the roller straight into a beam or a profile without special brackets.

Fitting takes two bolts per roller and a hole pattern with the right center distance in the profiles. Check that the bolt length does not bottom out in the thread and tighten with moderate torque; the tube is sheet steel and the fitting should not be pulled up like a machine screw in solid steel. If the roller has to be changed later you undo two bolts, and that simplicity is a common reason to pick the threaded version in lanes that are serviced while running.

Sheet steel makes the roller shrug off point loads and impacts, and it takes goods a plastic roller does not: pallet collars with nails, metal bottoms, edges and corners. In damp places or where you wash down often, check the surface finish against the manufacturer data sheet before you decide. For dry indoor use the roller looks after itself for many years.

Roller pitch is chosen from the shortest goods you run, with at least three rollers engaged under the box. Think about the flow as a whole too: a lane with threaded rollers gets stiff and takes rough handling, but it is never better than its fall. Check the slope with a level along the whole run once the lane is mounted, and adjust before it is fully loaded; it is easier to move a leg support now than when the flow has stopped.

At the yearly walk-through it is enough to spin every roller by hand and change the one that binds or sounds wrong. A stiff roller slows the goods more than you think, and in a gravity lane there is no motor to make up for it; the flow is never better than the worst roller. Keep the profiles free of strapping remnants and film that otherwise work their way in toward the roller ends.

The load rating is 160 kg per roller in rolling operation. As with all rollers it drops as the length grows, because a longer tube bends more in the middle; it is the deflection that sets the limit, not the thread. Size against the value for the exact length you buy, and count on the goods always resting on at least three rollers at a time.

A steel roller with a 60 mm diameter, 600 mm roller length and threaded shaft fitting FM10x20, that is, an internal M10 thread in the roller ends. The threaded version is bolted through the side profiles and gives a stiffer mounting with more load capacity than push-in spindles; this is the roller you pick when the lane has to carry heavier parcels or sit in a structure that must not have any play.

The series covers the 60 and 80 mm diameters with roller lengths from 500 to 1200 mm. A thicker tube gives more stiffness at the same length, so when the goods are both wide and heavy the diameter is the first thing to look at; the length then follows the width of the goods with a margin on both sides. The weight of this roller is 2.68 kg, a figure you need both for the freight and for judging how the lane is handled during assembly.

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