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retractable strain relief?

retractable strain relief?

retractable strain relief?

(OP)
Here is what I want:  a constant strain relief on a flexible cable(something like a retractable clothes line).  I have seen them, not sure what the actual name of the product.  Here is the application.  Moving horizontal platens in a hot plate welder.  I am going to use turck highflex cable for the multibox attached to the removible welder nest.  I am tring to make easier and faster for the setup guys.  The only problem is the available space.  Hoping someone here might have used something like this before.  I want to attach the retractable relief from the top to keep a caonstant tension on the cable to prevent wear and crushing the cable.  Thanks ahead of time for your help!

RE: retractable strain relief?

"Tool balancers" offset most of the weight of pneumatic tools on a production line.  They are typically built with a steel cable wound on a reel, preloaded by a constant- torque spring.

Also look at "festooning systems", used for supporting electrical cables that must follow horizontally moving things like traveling cranes.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: retractable strain relief?

(OP)
Thank You, exactly what I was looking for.

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