45mm Blocks - Size 3

A strong, lightweight range of blocks for use on dinghies, day boats and light cruising yachts. Ideal for mainsheet, vang, lead blocks or wherever a powerful and compact purchase tackle is required.

A comprehensive range of cam cleat, fiddle and fiddle & cam cleat versions are available.

Plain bearing blocks

Barton plain bearing blocks have a precision moulded acetal sheave running on a large diameter brass bearing, ensuring free running under the highest of loads.

Ball bearing blocks

With Barton's unique super-low friction ball race systems, featuring acetal sheaves and delrin ball bearings, running on a large diameter centre boss. This allows us to fit more load-bearing balls, which ensure extremely low friction performance, even under high loads.

• Single 45mm x 13mm (1 3 /4 x 1/2")
• Fiddle 30/58mm x 13mm (1 3 /16 x 2 1/4" x 1/2")
• Max rope diameter 10mm ( 3 /8")
• SWL 400Kg (881 lbs)
• Break load 800Kg (1763 lbs)
• Max rolling load (ball bearing blocks) 270kg (595 lbs)