Are You Asking Too Much From Your Equipment?
Most equipment uses construction type steels, having greater strength to withstand the rugged conditions required to survive.
When your equipment is stressed beyond what it was designed for, the equipment is abused. All steels have limits to their strength.
This excavator bucket shows what happens when an operator continually uses the bucket to bash larger rocks into smaller ones. Excavator buckets were never designed for that purpose. The front edge here is bowed, and the floor has a variety of patches from attempted repairs over the years.
This deformed and cracked steel plate, was the result of 3-pound castings falling from a height of 18”. The repeated pounding from this small weight, required frequent wear plate replacements, until they installed JADCO QT-PLUS ® and the wear stopped.
This loader bucket is caved in from repeated impact due to large rocks pounding the inside of the bucket. Here a carpenter square shows how the floor has been bashed in around the structural supports within the loader bucket from repeated abuse.
There is a limit to what any bucket can withstand.
How Strong Is Mild Steel?
To give you a comparison of steel strengths, the most common mild steel has the industry designation of A-36.
For mechanical strength, steels are listed by KSI. One KSI equals 1,000 psi; this means the strength of A-36 is 36 ksi or 36,000 psi.
There is a point where you must upgrade your materials for the task at hand.
Adding Nickel, Chromium, Molybdenum and Boron alloys in wear resistant steel, will not only give it higher hardness, but also additional strength.
HOW MUCH STRENGTH DOES QT-PLUS ® HAVE?
By comparison to our earlier 36 ksi, A-36 steel; JADCO QT-PLUS ® has 225 ksi, or 225,000 psi strength. This is why when you drop large rocks onto QT-PLUS ®, it doesn’t get pounded to the point of deforming.
When Forming QT-PLUS ®, It Requires FOUR TIMES The Pressure Of What Is Needed For A-36.
As an example, if your shop press brake is capable of bending 1-1/2” thick A-36 plate, it will only be able to bend 3/8” thick QT-PLUS ®.
To deliver exactly what you need, JADCO has two different 1,000-ton press brakes to form QT-PLUS ® up to 5” thick.
Which Of Your Equipment Could Use An Upgrade?
JADCO’s QT-PLUS ® delivers greater performance IN YOUR MOST CHALLENGING WEAR APPLICATIONS than the various AR400 type steel plates you have used previously.
Being able to create wear resistant steel having the same hardness through the entire thickness of the steel, demands you accurately control the alloying chemistry with precise heat treating.
Doesn’t Every Steel Company Make Their Wear Plate Last As Long As JADCO QT-PLUS ®?
The quick answer is No; although the attention to detail required at the steel mill in Pennsylvania is available to anyone. Yet most wear plate distributors choose to reduce the proper quantities and percentages of these essential alloying elements, to get a lower selling price.
When you cut back on these critical alloys, wear life drops and it is always the customer who suffers.
For over the last 43+ years JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer life for our customers.
Now you understand why we are able to deliver better results to our customers. We think differently by strictly focusing on improving your current results.
At JADCO, we think differently by strictly focusing on your results. Now you can understand why JADCO delivers better performance results for our customers.
Allow us to help you today by calling 724.452.5252, or email info@jadcomfg.com.
We will schedule a meeting with one of our local wear plate specialists at a time that best fits your schedule.
Remember, the only thing you have to lose by not working with JADCO, are your profits.
When your standard wear plate gives out, be certain to give JADCO a shout!
