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The Bassick BLS / BMS Series offers you one of the most durable caster lines we have ever produced, along with the most innovative brake design available in the marketplace today: The Sure-Lok Brake. This extremely durable caster line offers you a variety of different size, wheel, and brake options- ensuring that you fully meet all of your application’s requirements. The revolutionary Sure-Lok Brake design finally makes braking these heavy duty casters an easy task. Designed to achieve the highest load capacity in a sleek, low profile design

Heavy gauge steel for maximum durability
Innovative wheel materials for ease of mobility and trusted performance
RoHS-compliant

Polyolefin Wheels

The most economical hard tread wheel solution, Polyolefin wheels are non-marking and resistant to frequent wash-downs, oil, grease, cleaning solutions, and most chemicals. They have high-impact strength in a lightweight injection molded construction. These wheels have a temperature range of -20° to 180° F.

Glass Filled Nylon

Glass-filled Nylon wheels have high impact resistance. They can handle heavy loads and are extremely durable. Precision ball bearings provide easy mobility.

Solid Urethane

Solid Urethane construction provides excellent floor protection and durability. The Urethane helps absorb shocks and provide quieter mobility.

Phenolic

Brakes

The Sure-Lok Brake (pictured left) is available on 3″ swivel and rigid glass-filled nylon and urethane models (swivel radius is 2-5/8″).

The Sure-Lok Brake is a revolutionary new mechanical brake design that easily engages with the single push of a finger, securely locking the wheel in its place. Don’t spend unnecessary time and effort tightening down a thumb-screw brake again; order your next business machine casters with Sure-Lok Brakes.

A Thumb Screw Brake (not pictured) is also available on 3″ swivel models (swivel radius is 2-7/16″).

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