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https://leanproducts.eu/shop/gf-n-hard-profile-314 https://leanproducts.eu/web/image/product.template/314/image_1920?unique=f20c9d2Thick-walled Green Frame Ø 28 mm tube for joints subject to impacts and loads: about 1.7 times the bending resistance of the standard GF-N. The GF-S Ø 19 slides inside. 0.76 kg/m, 4000 mm bar or cut to length.
Green Frame · GF-N Ø 28 profiles
GF-N Hard profile: thick-walled Ø 28 mm tube for joints under stress
The thick-walled Green Frame Ø 28 mm tube: its bending resistance is about 1.7 times that of the standard tube, and it is designed for joints that take continuous impacts. It has an internal connector, end cap and bush for dedicated feet, and a GF-S Ø 19 tube slides inside it to make telescopic uprights. A line on the surface distinguishes it from the standard tube during assembly.
Why choose it
Withstands impacts
Use it in joints that take constant knocks: pushed trolleys, crate impacts, bumpers.
70% stiffer
Same outside diameter as the standard tube, about 1.7 times the bending resistance.
Telescopic uprights
A GF-S Ø 19 tube slides inside: you make height-adjustable uprights.
Sturdier feet
The dedicated bush withstands 3000 N in compression, against 1250 N for the standard M12 one.
Choose it if…
- The joint takes continuous impacts: trolleys, knocks, bumpers.
- You need more rigidity while staying within the 28 diameter.
- You want telescopic uprights with a GF-S tube sliding inside.
- The legs have to withstand high loads on the feet.
Choose another solution if…
- A moderate reinforcement is enough and you want M8 feet screwed into the end: Reinforced GF-N T profile →
- You need much more rigidity on a cross member: GF-N W profile →
- The loads are those of a Ø 43 tube: GF-G Hard profile →
Not sure which one to choose? Use the Green Frame quick guide →
Dedicated components
In joints that take impacts, use the Hard as the tube the connector clamps onto.
How to use it
Where the Hard makes the difference:
Tube clamped by the connector
In joints subject to continuous impacts, use the Hard as the tube the connector clamps onto.
Telescopic upright
Slide a GF-S Ø 19 tube inside the Hard and adjust its height.
Recognisable
The line on the surface distinguishes it from the standard tube during assembly.
The Frame Guard bumper profile does not fit on the Hard.
The LeanProducts service
From the drawing to the finished structure, with a single point of contact:
Design and load calculation
We start from your sketch or dimensions: we choose profiles and connectors and check spans, joints and loads.
Cut to length
We cut the profiles in our workshop to the project lengths, ready to assemble.
Kit or assembled structure
You receive the kit with the cut parts and the component list, or the structure already assembled.
Spare parts and modifications
When the process changes, we supply components and new cuts to modify or extend the structure.
Send us a sketch, a photo or the overall dimensions: we reply with codes, quantities and cutting lengths.
Technical data

| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Part number | GFF-019 |
| Series | GF-N, Ø 28 mm tube |
| Diameter | Ø 28 mm |
| Length | 4000 mm bar or cut to length |
| Weight | 0,76 kg/m |
| Material and finish | Anodised extruded aluminium |
| Moment of inertia | Ix = Iy = 2.01 × 10⁴ mm⁴ |
| Section modulus | Zx = Zy = 1.44 × 10³ mm³ |
| Bending resistance | About 1.7 times the GF-N profile |
| Load at mid-span, 500 mm span | 1350 N (about 138 kg) with deflection 5/1000 |
| Load at mid-span, 1000 mm span | 338 N (about 34 kg) with deflection 5/1000 |
| Inside | A GF-S Ø 19 tube slides inside |
| Suitable connectors | GF-N external connectors; dedicated internal connector GFJ-F24 |
| End caps | Inner end cap GFA-425, outer end cap GFA-401 |
| Feet and castors | Dedicated M12 bush GFN-E31: 3000 N in compression, 45 N·m lateral |
Concentrated loads at the centre of a tube fixed at both ends with connectors, span measured between the uprights: in a structure, joints and supports also count, and we carry out the full check on the project.
Related products
Not sure which profile to use?
Send us a sketch of the structure and the weight it must carry: we will tell you the profiles, connectors and cutting lengths.
Specifications
| Length | 4000 |
| Material | Anodised extruded aluminium |
| Weight | 0.76 kg/m |
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When a joint takes continuous impacts, for example where trolleys or boxes knock against the structure: the Hard goes in as the tube the connector clamps onto. It is also useful where you want more stiffness without changing diameter: it has about 1.7 times the bending resistance of the standard tube.
Similar stiffness: 1.7 times the standard tube for the Hard, 1.5 for the T. The Hard is designed for impacts, accepts a GF-S tube inside and has its own dedicated internal connector, plug and threaded insert. The T has an M8 thread at the end for feet.
Yes. A GF-S Ø 19 tube slides inside the Hard profile: you adjust the height by sliding out the inner tube. We will advise you on how to lock it in position according to the load.
GF-N external connectors and, if you want a flush joint, the dedicated internal connector GFJ-F24. To close the end there is the inner plug GFA-425 or the external plug GFA-401.
With the dedicated M12 threaded insert GFN-E31: it takes 3000 N in compression and 45 N·m laterally, far more than the standard M12 threaded insert at 1250 N. If you fit a castor, count on 500 N.
It has a line on the outer surface: you recognise it straight away during assembly. The diameter is the same, Ø 28 mm, but it weighs twice as much: 0.76 kg/m against 0.37.
The standard GF-N profile is suitable for most uprights and cross members. If a cross member is long or loaded use the GF-N W mounted on edge (about 10 times stiffer), or the T (about 1.5 times) or the Hard (about 1.7 times, also for joints that take impacts), which have the same diameter. To fix plate castors, panels or rollers with T-nuts choose the profile with C10 slot; F35 and F50 have a flat flange for labels, small parts holders and supports. The sliding profile has a smooth surface for sliding parts and boxes, the round roller profile becomes a roller with the pin connectors, LS and LS with S slot carry a linear slide and the linear guide profile is the track for the linear rollers.
The GF-N Ø 28 is the standard for workstations, flow racks and trolleys. The GF-S Ø 19 weighs about half as much (0.20 kg/m versus 0.37) and is for light frames, dividers, guards and small mechanisms. The GF-G Ø 43 is for uprights and cross members that have to carry a lot: over a 1000 mm span it supports 851 N at the centre versus 195 N for the GF-N, for the same deflection. It is often worth mixing them, for example GF-G uprights and GF-N cross members joined by mixed connectors.

