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• In addition to spoked handwheels and disk wheels, this group includes retractable and safety handles as well as control handwheels, hand cranks, and indexing cranked handles. Handwheels are ideal for any application where general or precise adjustments need to be made via a turning mechanism.

• These hand wheels are solid, so they won't catch hands or material while manually adjusting valves, presses, and machine components. To increase operator safety in applications with high shaft speeds, these hand wheels have a clutch that allows a shaft to rotate while the wheel remains stationary.

• The wheels are solid, so they won't catch hands or material while manually adjusting valves, presses, and machine components. Mill specific holes or keyways in the hub to meet your specifications or weld in place. These hand wheels are solid, so they won't catch hands or material while manually adjusting valves, presses, and machine components.

Use these handles as grips on hand wheels and cranks to operate machinery. These handles are often used as grips on hand wheels or cranks to operate machinery around food processing lines without the risk of contaminating the food. Install them on a threaded stud.

Handwheels & Cranked Handles Handwheels are used to adjust settings on machinery. They can be used in conjunction with revolving or retractable handles, which can be folded back into a recess so that they do not protrude when not in use, or adjusted by rotating the wheel itself.

Available diameters: 50 to 500 mm. Some handwheels come with or without a handle, and with a front aluminium disk optional in several Elecolors® which help to better match the equipment they are desitned to. In the Elesa catalog you can also shop Ganter hand wheels and crand handles.

Solid handwheels can have knurled, moulded edges for a better grip. There are safety variants, where the clutch hand wheel can be engaged by pulling or pushing the wheel on it's spindle, and like our other handwheels, these are available with or without handles.