SR028
STAREX
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As a premier manufacturer and supplier of precision industrial equipment, we present this high-performance medium duty gas regulator, engineered for uncompromising safety and flow consistency.
Features a robust single-stage construction that guarantees stable and precise pressure control across various industrial applications.
Constructed with a heavy-duty forged brass body, ensuring maximum durability and resistance to harsh working environments.
Equipped with a highly responsive neoprene diaphragm for reliable, long-lasting performance.
Integrates a sintered metal inlet filter to effectively trap microscopic impurities and protect internal mechanisms.
Specially optimized and designed to meet the rigorous operational standards of the South African market.
When precision and reliability dictate the success of your welding, heating, and cutting operations, this medium duty regulator stands as the ultimate fluid control solution. Crafted with a solid, weighty forged brass body, it feels incredibly robust in the hand, signaling a level of craftsmanship designed to withstand the harshest and most demanding industrial environments. The smooth, polished exterior naturally resists corrosive elements, while the meticulously engineered internal components work in silent harmony to deliver an unwavering stream of gas. Every turn of the adjustment knob offers a firm, tactile response, allowing operators to dial in exact pressure settings without hesitation, drift, or sudden surges. By eliminating soldered joints in its architecture, this regulator removes common points of mechanical failure, ensuring that high-volume production lines and heavy-duty fabrication shops experience significantly fewer interruptions. The integration of advanced filtration and responsive diaphragm technology means that your equipment receives a clean, consistent flow, ultimately resulting in cleaner welds, sharper cuts, and a drastic reduction in material waste. This is not merely a valve; it is a critical safeguard for your operational efficiency, ensuring that every project is executed with flawless precision and absolute workforce security.
The following technical specifications outline the precise engineering parameters of our medium duty regulator series. Each specific model undergoes rigorous calibration to handle distinct industrial gases, ensuring optimal compatibility, safety, and performance. From the high-pressure demands of oxygen and nitrogen purging to the sensitive flow requirements of acetylene and propane, these regulators are built to maintain exact delivery pressures under continuous use. The robust single-stage construction, combined with specialized materials like forged brass and neoprene, guarantees long-lasting reliability across all variants. Please review the detailed data table below to select the exact configuration that perfectly aligns with your operational pressure requirements and specific gas types.
| Model | Gas | Max. Inlet Pressure (PSI) | Delivery Pressure (PSI) | Max. Working Pressure (PSI) |
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| SR028-OX | Oxygen | 3000 | 230 | 150 |
| SR028-AC | Acetylene | 300 | 15 | 10 |
| SR028-LP | Propane | 300 | 60 | 36 |
| SR028-NI | Nitrogen | 3000 | 230 | 150 |
| Product Name | Medium Duty Afrox Saffire Regulator |
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| Construction | Single-stage |
| Body Material | Forged brass |
| Diaphragm Material | Neoprene |
| Filter Type | Sintered metal inlet filter |
| Joint Type | No soldered joints |
| Design | Side entry design |
| Safety Feature | Built-in safety relief valve (for Oxygen regulator) |
| Target Market | Specially designed for the South African market |
Elevate your fabrication and metallurgical capabilities with a regulator engineered for absolute control and unyielding resilience. Our core design philosophy centers on maximizing your operational uptime while minimizing maintenance overhead, providing a seamless, highly efficient experience for heavy-duty industrial applications.
Unyielding Forged Brass Core: The solid brass body provides exceptional resistance against mechanical impacts and environmental degradation, securing your equipment investment for the long term.
Advanced Neoprene Diaphragm: Reacts instantly to minute pressure fluctuations, delivering a smooth, uninterrupted gas flow that is crucial for high-quality, defect-free welding work.
Zero-Solder Architecture: By removing soldered joints, we have eliminated the most common structural weak points, drastically reducing the risk of microscopic leaks and simplifying the maintenance process.
Integrated Safety Protocols: Featuring a built-in safety relief valve on oxygen models and a sintered metal inlet filter across all variants, this device actively prevents over-pressurization and internal contamination.
Ergonomic Side Entry: The side entry design allows for highly convenient mounting on standard gas cylinders, keeping gauges clearly visible and adjustment knobs easily accessible in cramped workspaces.
In demanding industrial settings, equipment longevity is directly tied to overall profitability and operational success. This regulator is meticulously constructed from high-strength forged brass, a premium material chosen specifically for its dense molecular structure and superior resistance to physical trauma. Unlike brittle cast alternatives, the forged body will not crack or fracture under sudden impacts or high-stress conditions, ensuring continuous operation.
Corrosion Resistance: The dense brass composition naturally repels moisture, oxidation, and corrosive airborne particles frequently found in busy fabrication shops and outdoor construction sites.
Impact Survivability: Engineered to survive accidental drops, heavy vibrations, and the rigorous, fast-paced handling typical of large-scale manufacturing floors.
Cost Efficiency: The exceptional lifespan of these premium materials significantly reduces the frequency of equipment replacement, optimizing your procurement budget and lowering total cost of ownership.
Structural Integrity: The heavy-duty build quality ensures that the internal threading and valve seats remain perfectly aligned, even after years of continuous cylinder changes and pressure cycling.
Achieving the perfect weld or the cleanest cut requires absolute consistency in gas delivery. The single-stage construction of this regulator, paired with a highly responsive neoprene diaphragm, ensures that pressure remains perfectly stable from the moment the cylinder is opened until it is nearly depleted. This eliminates the frustration of constantly readjusting settings during a critical task.
Precision Dialing: The tactile adjustment mechanism allows operators to set exact delivery pressures with pinpoint accuracy, preventing gas surges that could ruin delicate workpieces or cause blowouts.
Neoprene Flexibility: The specialized diaphragm material retains its elasticity even in wildly fluctuating ambient temperatures, ensuring consistent, reliable performance year-round.
Optimized Flow Dynamics: Internal gas channels are machined to exact micro-tolerances, preventing turbulence and ensuring a smooth, laminar flow of gas directly to the torch head.
Single-Stage Efficiency: Provides rapid response times to sudden changes in flow demand, making it highly suitable for applications that require quick bursts of gas followed by sustained output.
Protecting your workforce and your facility infrastructure is paramount. We have integrated multiple layers of passive and active safety features into the core design of this regulator to mitigate the inherent risks of handling highly pressurized, combustible, and oxidizing industrial gases.
Automatic Pressure Relief: Oxygen models are equipped with a precision-calibrated built-in safety relief valve that automatically vents excess pressure, preventing catastrophic structural failures and protecting the operator.
Sintered Metal Filtration: A microscopic barrier at the inlet traps rust, dust, and cylinder debris before they can enter the regulator body, protecting sensitive internal valves from scoring and dangerous malfunctions.
Secure Seating Technology: The internal valve seats are designed to close firmly and instantly when gas flow is halted, preventing dangerous creeping pressures from building up in the hoses during downtime.
Blow-Out Prevention: The robust forged body acts as a primary containment vessel, designed to safely direct any internal pressure anomalies away from the user's immediate handling area.
Modern fabrication facilities often utilize a wide array of gases for different thermal and chemical processes. Our comprehensive series offers specialized models tailored to the unique behavioral characteristics and pressure profiles of oxygen, acetylene, propane, and nitrogen, ensuring you have the exact, optimized tool for every specific application.
Broad Pressure Range: Capable of managing delivery pressures from a delicate 10 PSI for fine acetylene jewelry work up to a robust 150 PSI for heavy oxygen cutting and high-volume nitrogen purging.
Application Flexibility: Perfectly suited for a multitude of industrial tasks including high-temperature brazing, localized heating, heavy-duty metal cutting, and protective gas shielding.
Standardized Interface: Despite handling vastly different gases, the uniform exterior design across all models allows your technicians to operate them with familiar, intuitive ease, reducing operational errors.
Color-Coded Identification: Designed to integrate seamlessly with standard industry color-coding practices, ensuring that operators can quickly and safely identify the correct regulator for the correct gas cylinder.
Time spent wrestling with equipment installation or performing complex, tedious repairs is time lost on the production floor. We have engineered this regulator to be as user-friendly as it is robust, minimizing setup times and drastically simplifying routine maintenance protocols for your technical staff.
Side Entry Configuration: The side-entry design allows the regulator to sit flush alongside the cylinder, keeping gauges clearly visible and adjustment knobs easily accessible without straining the operator's wrists.
Solder-Free Assembly: By utilizing advanced mechanical fastening instead of soldered joints, internal components can be quickly accessed, cleaned, or replaced without the need for specialized hot-work tools.
Standardized Threading: Precision-machined inlet and outlet threads ensure a secure, leak-proof connection with standard industrial hoses and cylinder valves, eliminating the frustration of cross-threading.
Easy-Read Gauges: Compatible with high-contrast, dual-scale gauges that allow operators to monitor cylinder contents and delivery pressure simultaneously with just a quick glance.
Understanding the unique environmental and operational demands of different geographical regions is key to providing truly effective industrial solutions. This specific regulator series has been meticulously tailored to align with the rigorous industrial standards, safety regulations, and operational habits prevalent in the South African market and surrounding regions.
Regional Standard Adherence: Fully compliant with the specific safety and performance benchmarks required by Southern African industrial authorities, ensuring seamless integration into local operations.
Environmental Resilience: Built to withstand the specific climatic conditions, extreme temperature fluctuations, and high dust levels frequently encountered in African mining and heavy manufacturing sectors.
Familiar Operation: Designed to mimic the operational feel and gauge readouts that local technicians are already accustomed to, drastically reducing the training curve for new equipment adoption.
Supply Chain Optimization: Engineered with standardized components that are readily available within the regional supply network, ensuring that spare parts and replacements can be sourced without prolonged international shipping delays.
Sourcing critical industrial equipment requires a manufacturing partner who intimately understands the intricate balance between uncompromising quality, consistent supply, and economic viability. As a premier manufacturer and supplier, we are dedicated to empowering your operational success through superior engineering, rigorous testing, and dedicated support.
Direct-from-Manufacturer Value: By eliminating unnecessary middlemen, we provide premium-grade gas control equipment at highly competitive price points, maximizing your procurement efficiency and bottom line.
Stringent Quality Assurance: Every single regulator undergoes rigorous pressure testing, flow calibration, and leak detection protocols before it leaves our facility, ensuring out-of-the-box reliability.
Robust Supply Chain: We maintain substantial inventory levels and utilize optimized logistics networks to ensure your bulk orders arrive exactly on schedule, preventing costly operational delays.
Expert Technical Support: Our dedicated team of seasoned engineers and product specialists is always available to assist with precise model selection, technical troubleshooting, and custom configuration requests.
Single-stage construction offers a rapid response to flow changes and provides a highly consistent delivery pressure that is ideal for continuous, high-volume cutting. It reduces the complexity of the internal mechanism compared to dual-stage models, leading to higher reliability, fewer moving parts, and easier maintenance in demanding, fast-paced environments.
Soldered joints are inherently susceptible to fatigue from constant pressure cycling, physical impacts, and extreme thermal variations. By utilizing a solder-free mechanical assembly, we eliminate these common structural weak points, drastically reducing the likelihood of microscopic gas leaks and significantly extending the overall service life of the unit.
Absolutely not. The SR028-OX is specifically calibrated, internally lubricated with oxygen-safe materials, and equipped with a built-in safety relief valve designed exclusively for oxygen service. Using it with other gases, especially combustible ones like acetylene or propane, poses a severe safety hazard and compromises the integrity of the equipment.
Industrial gas cylinders often contain microscopic rust, scale, or dust particles. The sintered metal filter acts as a highly effective, porous barrier, trapping these abrasive particles before they can enter the regulator body. This protects the sensitive internal valve seats and the neoprene diaphragm from scoring, ensuring a perfect seal and preventing gas leaks.
The side entry configuration allows the regulator to sit flush against the cylinder profile rather than protruding outward. This keeps the pressure gauges angled perfectly for easy reading and ensures the adjustment knob is highly accessible. It reduces awkward wrist movements for operators during setup and minimizes the risk of the regulator being accidentally bumped or broken off in crowded workspaces.
