Radial Aerospace & Aluminium Cross Roller Slides
Radial Aerospace Ltd is a joint venture between Set Square Investments (trading as Sliding Systems) UK and Radia SRL, Italy. This facilitates the design, manufacture and global distribution of unique components specified within aircraft interior stowage; specifically seating motion control. The highly advanced Turin manufacturing facility is accredited to AS9100-D. Our design engineers are based in the UK, Italy, Germany and Taiwan with 30 years’ experience of managing turnkey projects within the space, aerospace and defence sectors.
Unlike many telescopic and linear products from a furniture or vehicle background, our products have been designed, approved and tested for aerospace applications and are manufactured in our AS9100 accredited factory in Italy.
Aluminium Radial Slides have been developed with a unique crossed roller bearing system which makes full length contact in the ball race and eradicates soft material/hard ball bearing brinelling problems. One key feature of using rollers instead of conventional ball bearings is that the space between the beams is minimal and this offers good protection from outside contamination. Cross roller bearings have a high resistance to migration under vibration, unlike standard ball bearings. The higher load capacity slides have heavy duty die spring end stops as standard to absorb impact under demanding conditions. The newly launched Aero slides are made from aerospace grade 7075 T6 alloy, with all 316 stainless steel components. They have integrated spring stops and a unique wiper system to remove dirt ingress from the raceways: Specifically deigned for emergency & military vehicles.