chainflex® control cable CF5

CF5 is the high-duty member of the PVC range — built for fast, long-travel motion that the medium-duty cables can't sustain. It bends to a tight 6.8 × d in the e-chain®, reaches speeds of 33 ft/s (10 m/s) with accelerations to 262 ft/s² (80 m/s²), and glides up to 328 ft (100 m). The oil-resistant PVC jacket, ±90° torsion, and cleanroom testing round it out, with a +5 °C to +70 °C (+41 °F to +158 °F) range within e-chains and UL/CSA and NFPA 79 approvals. It's the unshielded high-performance PVC control cable for demanding indoor travel.

When to use it: Fast, long, high-cycle flexing and gliding indoors with light oil exposure — long-travel gantries, storage-and-retrieval systems, and high-throughput machining and handling where speed and travel are the limiting factors.

When not to use it: When you need a shield (use the shielded CF6), when you need the very tightest radii and a softer, lighter cable (use CFSOFT1), when medium duty would do at lower cost (use CF150.UL), or when the application needs a jacket built for outdoor, UV, or aggressive-chemical service (move to PUR-jacketed CF77.UL.D or TPE-jacketed CF9).

Application areas: Long-travel gantries and linear axes, storage-and-retrieval and high-bay warehouse systems, high-speed machining and handling units, and other demanding indoor motion with coolant exposure.