Our food and medical lock offering includes two specialist quarter turns in stainless steel with integral colour coded washers and extra smooth designs – both available ex-stock from our Online store.

The IP67 ref 7-081 quarter-turn lock is good news for cabinet suppliers to the food processing and clean room industry sectors. By virtue of its specialist SW13 insert and key arrangement the 7-081 minimises traps for dirt and biological material. This is achieved by use of a polished surface and smoothing transition radii, as well as water and dust tight dual O-Rings giving protection to IP67. Design is further enhanced by manufacture in AISI 316L stainless steel and availability of a range of cams to accommodate varying door to frame depths.

Both food and medical industries are also served with the 7-081.01 “Hygiene ¼ turn lock” in stainless steel. This lock has been specifically designed to meet the requirements of these environments with an easy clean, non-dirt trapping design and IP69 sealing to K rating – to withstand regular high pressure, high temperature wash down and steam cleaning. In addition, its blue silicon seal conforms to the requirements of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration).

IP69K rating means that in addition to hygiene sensitive applications, the 7-081.01 is suited to many other installations such as car wash centres, and outside machinery, e.g. dump trucks, cement mixers etc. that undergo regular intensive cleaning.

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Snap-line fasteners and joiners featuring the innovative D-Snap® technology enable quick construction of custom enclosures for specialist panel builders. Their snap together system enables steel panels to be manufactured and simply clipped together when needed to provide a robust housing without the use of tools or mounting hardware. Non standard sizes and complex shaped steel housings can be produced for many industrial purposes including electrical equipment and for supermarket displays.

*A free pocket guide to D-Snap is available; see our “Books” section.

Yes indeed we really have lots of handles in stock ready for same day dispatch and delivery anywhere – our Online store presently lists 88 individual items including swinghandles, bridge handles, chrome, black, grab, knob lock, L and T handles in zinc die, polyamide and stainless steel – and then we have all the others that we don’t list on the Online store. That is all the other handles from our major sales partners Dirak, EMKA, Weston Body Hardware, Pinet, Gold and Wassall, Southco and Lowe & Fletcher – a brilliant line up of long term specialist manufacturers who stand behind our stock to ensure you get the best handles when you need them.

Contact our team here

As long term contractors to Southern Rail/GTR, K H Engineering Services find themselves in frequent need to deal with protection of mains power equipment within areas of high DC power usage. This specialist protection is required for all electrical mains supplies likely to be used by the public – such as socket outlets, ticket machines, hand driers, water heaters and more recently electric vehicle charging points to BS 7671 in station car parks.

The problem of course is to eliminate nuisance tripping from induced currents which would activate a cut-off in normal equipment. Fortunately for K H  Engineering Services, our FDB 11 from is a proven DC immune solution to this problem and on the DC approved list which makes it ideal for use on the Southern Line and other lines from North London to Kent and through to Portsmouth where they are recognised electrical maintainers.

Explained Qualifying Supervisor Tony Mace: “We have found the FDB 11 units excellent for all our installation work, whether it be renovation or new build. We have always found the sales team at FDB to be efficient, timely, very competitive and always helpful.”

“The FDB 11 has proven itself extremely reliable and flexible since we can readily obtain it in a range of standard ratings which suit our need for 16A or 32A current capacity with 30mA trip DC immune RCDs. When required we can also get them in multiple housings.”

Follow the KH Engineering example and contact us now to discuss your power protection needs.

Most of our customers are aware of the FDB 11 general purpose RCBO with overload and short circuit protection, it’s Approved Network Rail DC Immune Protection and conformity to BS4293 (RCD); BSEN60898 (MCB) are major factors in selection for regular projects – but we find that many customers come to us with non-standard requirements which we are delighted to meet. Custom panel production is an important part of the service we offer here at FDB Electrical – so if you need something a bit different call our team here.

We love hinges here at “Panel Fittings” so we have pages and pages of them at our Online store in many types and styles; including lift-off, screw-on, weld-on, surface mounted, concealed, continuous and butt hinges.

Available in zinc die, polyamide, steel and stainless steel according to specification.

Then we have a couple of Knowledge Base articles KB02.1 and KB04.1  and a handy Hinge Calculator tool also available here. 

Explains FDB Panel Fittings, M.D. Gary Miles “In the railway industry we work with many different key types for various applications, requiring people to carry a lot of keys wherever they go. So we created a convenient and flexible product to better serve this industry – a universal key for 4 different inserts so that engineers can conveniently open multiple applications with one key”.

The universal railway key offers a single piece with the 4 common key types to save on carry weight and ensure that engineers can always have the right key, right there to hand – with extra leverage for hard to turn locks, and an integrated eyelet for easy attachment.

This stainless steel key includes the conical square insert (Berne key), the socket square 7.6mm insert (UK), the DÜWAG insert and traditional conical square 9mm. Contact us for your universal railway key.

Under the Rocfast lock assembly brand we have a wide range of locking devices and ancillary components for all industrial applications which we assemble to customer specification – with your choice of insert/lock cylinder, body length, cam style/length and to the required sealing level – all packaged and delivered wherever required worldwide.

Our locking components are provided from a number of top international manufacturers and cover all specialist panel needs from quarter turn locks to swinghandles – many of these locks are available ex-stock from our Online store – contact our expert sales team to discuss other Rocfast requirements.

Our new Rocfast guide to lock assembly now available free from the links below is a how-to-do-it selection assistant from our respected experts in specialist cabinet and enclosure hardware.

Customers are walked through the logical process of determining which housing, insert, cam, cut-out, and/or cam adapter may be required for standard or extended body locks in common finishes and how to select the correct part number to ensure the desired part is ordered. Accessories such as handle inserts, dust caps and finger pulls, serrated lock washers and earth nuts are highlighted, as are slide shoes for cams which help provide a positive compression while reducing the friction and paint damage caused by constant operation.

You can download free from www.fdb.co.uk/rocfastdownloads, or contact [email protected] or call us on 0208 568 1616 for a free hard copy leaflet.