Slide retainers offer greaseless performance

Progressive Components' SRT Slide Lock Style retainers are available in three force ratings.
Nov. 21, 2024

SRT Slide Retainers Available in many models and sizes, Progressive Components’ compact SRT Slide Retainers can hold side actions from 2 pounds to 80 pounds. Featuring springs of different colors to indicate force rating, the slide retainers can be installed in a mold base or wear plate. 

What’s new? New Slide Lock Style Slide Retainers, available in three models: the SRTLK-25A with a green spring to hold 25 pounds; the SRTLK-25B with a longer blue spring to hold 25 pounds; and the SRTLK-50A with a red spring that holds 50 pounds. 

Benefits Greaseless performance. The Slide Lock Style Slide Retainer features a roller design that will not wear the bottom of slides. It’s appropriate for use in manufacturing medical and cosmetic products.  

Progressive Components, Wauconda, Ill., 847-487-1000, https://procomps.com 

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Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.

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