Chambrelan Heavy Duty Slides: Better Protection

Due to the WEEE Directive of 2007 certain heavy metal finishes had to be removed from our heavy duty slides and linear rails, forcing the industry to change their protection.  Chambrelan now use a chrome free white zinc plate.

This plate is now provided as the standard Chambrelan finish across the whole range of products utilising carbon steel sections that are produced and refined on site at Chambrelan's Le Havre factory.  The benefits of this system include improved corrosion resistance, amounting to 480 hours of protection against the salt spray test (see pics) before appearance of white rust (more than 5% of surface), which means Chambrelan have more than doubled the amount of protection at no extra cost to the customer.  This treatment also improves the protection of the appearance of red rust, by roughly 12% – from 600 hours to 672.

The zin plating also adds structural strength to the slide, providing extra rigidity and making them more ruggedised than ever before.  As a company Chambrelan is dedicated to continually improving their range of products, whether it's introducing new slides or improving on their most popular designs and a huge amount of investment has been made in the drawing, refining, cleaning, annealing and machining of their slides, which all combine to improve the life expectancy of the slide, whilst maintaining a competitive price point.

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Champion's Use Chambrelan Heavy Duty Slides

When two professional carriage racers contacted Chambrelan UK for a set of heavy duty slides to extend their horse-box, with the aim of increasing their living space, we were all ears.

But before we did anything we had to find out what carriage racing was all about.  There are two things one immediately realises about carriage racing, firstly its fast and secondly it's furious.  Pulled by two horses on what can only be described as a two wheeled cart called a 'sulky' they tear round race tracks all over the UK.

That's about it.

As British Champions of the sport Sue Denney realised that her horsebox was too small for long weeks and sometime months competing and realised they wanted to 'kick' their horsebox out to increase their living space inside the vehicle.  Having a larger horsebox for living quarters as well as mobile stable, required re-hauling the entire frame to add an extra large single cab, designed to contain the bathroom.  This was achieved by extending the sides of the pod by hydraulics, which once extended added an additional 9 square metres of space.  The problem the team had was finding a set of heavy duty slides capable of taking the weight and delivering the extension they needed, repeatedly.

Chambrelan's RA7 heavy duty slide was the only product on the market that could carry the weight and offer the extension they needed whilst being operated by the hydraulic pump.  Chambrelan's RA7 has a triple bar design, meaning it's highly durable and easily operated regardless the working conditions.

These environments and the loads involved meant the slides needed to be easily fitted and easily maintained and for this reason Chambrelan's RA7 heavy duty slide was perfect for the job.

To see a very short clip of how the horsebox pod kicks out, check out the video below or click her to view