8" Top Plate Swivel Caster with Glass-Filled Polypropylene Wheel - 170RT08201S01

About This Caster - 170RT08201S01

Pick this 8-inch Empire 170 swivel when the heaviest cart needs to steer through a wet or hot area and ride over the worst floors.

The 8-inch swivel clears the biggest obstacles while turning and handles up to 1,400 pounds under load. The wheel is glass-filled polypropylene, a stiff reinforced plastic rated -20 to 250°F that resists washdown chemicals and corrosion where steel and rubber struggle. It is hard with no cushioning, rolls cleanly on smooth floors, passes shock through, and can mark, and it runs on a roller bearing meant for manual pushing. The swivel pivots on a kingpinless welded raceway with no central pin to loosen, bolts on a 4 by 4-1/2-inch top plate at a 9-1/2-inch mount height, and is zinc plated for damp-area service.

Ideal applications

• 8-inch glass-filled poly swivel up to 1,400 lb on the heaviest steering corners
• Maneuverable 8-inch corrosion-proof wheel clearing the worst floors in wet bays
• Hot-line carts up to 250°F that need the tallest plastic wheel to turn

For a fixed wheel that tracks straight, the 170RT08201R01 is the rigid version.

Pairs with: two RT rigids on the fixed end and two of these swivels on the steering end of an 8-inch cart.

Wrong fit? Need a brake or a shorter wheel? See the 8-inch RT FBB-brake 170RT08201S01FBB and the 6-inch RT swivel 170RT06201S.

Also in this family: the 5-inch RT swivel 170RT05201S, or the full Albion collection.