The TECNA 9323 is an industrial spring tool retractor - a retractor tool balancer for tools weighing 13.2-17.6 lb, for example larger nutrunners or impact wrenches - and it works equally with any other tool in that weight range.

Cable travel is 6.6 ft (2,000 mm) and capacity is adjustable across 13.2-17.6 lb (6-8 kg). It is a retractor, so when you let go the tool returns to its rest position, clear of the work, rather than staying where you leave it. A spring drum inside winds the cable in and carries the tool's weight, which is why retractors like this are also called spring balancers. Hanging the tool takes its weight off the operator's arm, which cuts fatigue on repetitive assembly-line work, and keeps the tool, and its hose or cable, off the bench and off the floor, so they last longer.

If the drum spring ever breaks, a safety device blocks the balancer so the tool cannot fall. If it trips, do not try to free it - have the balancer serviced.

Size it on the total hanging weight - the tool, its accessories and the length of hose or cable the balancer lifts - which has to sit inside the capacity range. Electric, pneumatic and hydraulic tools all suspend the same way.

Specifications:

• Capacity: 13.2-17.6 lb (6-8 kg), adjustable
• Cable travel: 6.6 ft (2,000 mm)
• Unit weight: 5.03 lb (2.28 kg)
• Ambient temperature: 41 to 140 F (5 to 60 C)
• Stainless steel cable
• Rugged cast aluminium body
• Adjustable capacity
• Safety suspension
• Safety device against load dropping due to spring breakage
• Adjustable stroke limiting device
• Cable guide in antifriction material
• Inert spring drum assembly
• Polyamide thimble
• GS safety mark

Extension cables are available if the balancer has to hang higher than the tool needs to reach, from 1.6 ft to 16.4 ft (500 to 5,000 mm). Ask us for the right one for this model.

Longer cable travel is built to order: 9.8 ft (3,000 mm) or 14.8 ft (4,500 mm).

The structure you hang it from has to be stronger than five times the balancer weight plus the maximum load - and if several balancers share one structure, five times the total of all of them, each on its own independent connection point. Always connect the safety suspension to a separate support, and set the stroke limiter so the tool never comes to rest above the operator.

Made in Italy, to DIN 15112. The standard TECNA line carries the GS safety mark. Breaking load is guaranteed at a minimum of five times the declared maximum load on every sensitive part. Every production lot is sample-tested too: a static test at 1.25 times the maximum rated load held for ten minutes at full stroke, and a dynamic test at 1.1 times maximum load run for an hour.

The same retractor is also built as the 9323NY with polypropylene rope instead of steel cable, the 9323IL for food processing and washdown areas, the 9323ES for ESD-protected areas and the 9323AX, ATEX-certified for gas atmospheres.

Need an air line to the tool? The TECNA 9323 with a Pneumatico P932X air hose kit is this retractor supplied with the coil hose fitted.

Other capacities in the 9320-9323 series: 9320 (2.2-5.5 lb), 9321 (4.4-8.8 lb), 9322 (8.8-13.2 lb).

Browse all tool retractors. If you need the load to stay where you leave it instead of returning to rest, that is a zero-gravity balancer, not a retractor.

Supported in the USA by Tool Balancers USA.