80/20: Roller Wheel Overview

80/20: Roller Wheel Overview

Hello and welcome to 80/20’s product highlight series. Today we’ll be taking a look at roller wheels. These wheels allow profiles to easily roll along the T-slot of adjoining profiles. They are easy to install, available in both fractional and metric, and compatible across a wide range of profile series.

Now the great thing about using these wheels, is they require no machining, and they come preassembled. Now when it comes to installing these wheels, you have two choices. You can install it with or without a bracket. If you are going to do it without a bracket, simply take the wheel and loosen up the T-nut, and you’ll slide it into the open T-slot. You’ll find your location, and then you’ll tighten it down.

Now if you’re going to use a bracket you simply take the preassembled part, and loosen up the T-nuts. From there, you’ll slide it into the open T-slot, you’ll find your location you want, and you’ll tighten down the bolts as well. From there you’ll take your mating profile, and as you can see you’ll have nice smooth movement, thanks to these roller wheels.

80/20 Inc: Roller Wheel Overview

[EricTungCom]

Can the sealed bearing rollers be used in an outdoor application? What is the rest of the hardware made out of? Stainless, etc?

[PrevailingDanger]

Can these be used in precision machines such as CNCs and 3D printers: the same way v rails are constructed?

[midknightmist]

No fine adjustment like an eccentric nut?

[Followmyleash]

I'm planning to build a material lifter to lift up my car roof box. Can these rollers to be used with the T-slot for my application?