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Why don’t the castors have brakes?

June 18th, 2024

Directional locks and brakes are slightly different. Directional locks will lock the castor in one direction whereas brakes would lock it off completely. We don’t use brakes for safety reasons: for example, if castors are locked on an incline there is the danger that the weight of the load could cause a brake to fail and the load to slide.

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