#handtrucks

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At Industrial Shelving Racks & Equipment, we offer a wide range of new and used pallet jacks and hand trucks designed for safe and easy handling of heavy loads. Choose the right equipment to streamline your operations and enhance productivity.

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Over the last several years, we have seen a dramatic rise in the need for hand trucks with brakes.  The primary reason for this is safety.  When delivery drivers are moving thousands of pounds of goods on and off of trucks and trailers each day, the ability to control their fully-loaded hand trucks is a necessity.  And while we have helped our customers with brand new braking hand trucks, we also have helped retrofit our customers’ older hand trucks with brakes.  This is a great cost-effective way to provide the safety of a brake hand truck without scrapping your old hand truck. 

Today we are going to give you a step-by-step guide to installing a brake kit on your B&P aluminum hand truck.  Of course, there are many different styles and options for hand trucks, so yours may be different that what is shown here.  Have no fear though, because we are here to help.  So if what you see below does not look like your hand truck, give us a call at 1-800-325-2753 or contact us by clicking HERE, and we can get you the correct information and parts for your hand truck. 

Now on to the installation:

We took a popular hand truck model A8-B1-C6-D6SS-E1L (shown on the left in the image below) and added a brake kit to make it an A8-B1-C6-D6SS-E1L-BTC (shown on the right). 

Tools/Materials required:

Phillips Head screwdriver

(2) 1/2″ socket wrenches

(2) 7/8″ wrenches and/or socket wrenches

Needle nose pliers

B&P Tread Brake Kit (various models available, so contact us for help with selection)

This is a tread brake controlled by a hinged handle and cable.  When you pull up on the handle, a steel brake shoe contacts each wheel and holds them in place until you release the handle.

The first step is to install the brake mounting brackets by removing the Phillips head screw located on each side of the bottom of the frame using your screw driver and (1) 1/2″ socket wrench, then installing the brackets as shown with the new hex head bolt and (2) 1/2″ socket wrenches.  Use the lower bracket hole for 10″ wheels, and the upper hole if you have 8″ wheels.  Tighten just enough so that the brackets do not slip on their own, but you can still move them by hand with moderate effort.

Next, slide the brake axle through the round holes in the brackets, and install one of the brake shoes as shown, securing with washers and cotter pin using your needle nose pliers.

Next, install the pull bar and the second brake shoe and secure with washers and cotter pins using your needle nose pliers:

Next, adjust the brake shoes by sliding the brackets up or down until there is about 1/16″ between the shoe and the wheel tread as shown below.  Once in place, fully tighten hex bolt with (2) 1/2″ socket wrenches.

Now you can replace your old handle with your new one (which is equipped with the brake handle) using your screwdriver and 7/8″ wrench to remove and replace the (4) screws holding the handles onto the frame.  Once your new handle is installed, bolt the cable onto the brake handle using the 1/4″ hex head bolt and your (2) 7/8″ wrenches as shown here:

Now thread the cable through hole in the handle:

Next, thread the hex nut and yoke onto the bottom end of the cable and adjust until the holes in the yoke align with the hole in the center of the pull bar:

Once aligned, insert the pin and secure with the small cotter pin and needle nose pliers, and run the hex nut down to hold the yoke in place: