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Preheat Wear Resistant Steel Before Welding
The deep freeze that covered most of the central and southern states recently, reminds us of the need to preheat wear plate before welding. High quality, heat treated wear resistant steel contains several alloying elements, such as Nickel, Chromium, Molybdenum, Boron and several others. The dark area to...
Three Easy Ways to Get More Life From Your Buckets
In the Northern United States, December through March is the typical shutdown and repair season for the aggregate / sand and gravel industries. Your excavator bucket is caught between a rock and a hard place every day. Regardless if it fails over time, or is suddenly destroyed, you have...
What Thickness Wear Plate Should I Use?
The fast answer is it depends on your application, equipment limitations and how long your current thickness wear plate lasts. All Steel Is Priced By The Pound For conversation, let’s compare ½” to ¾” thick wear plate. With QT-PLUS ® being the same hardness throughout the thickness of the steel, the...
Do You Hardface For Earth Wear?
I had a conversation recently with a long time customer about how they maintain their equipment. They dig in all types of soil from sand and gravel, to quartz to cobble. I asked... What type of hardfacing do they use? His answer surprised me: We Try To Stay Away From Hardfacing As...
Top 10 Wear Plate Posts From 2025
2025 was a year of meaningful progress at JADCO.From major equipment investments to continued refinement of our CHROMEWELD family of products, every advancement shared one goal: delivering longer-lasting, higher-performing wear solutions for our customers.Below are some of the most impactful articles from 2025, each highlighting how JADCO continues to...
HAPPY NEW YEAR
"Let’s be honest... Very few people are thinking about wear resistant steel on New Year’s Eve. " But if you are, you are in good company...you're dedicated to getting a job done right. Any time of day or night, you can find answers to your toughest wear challenges at JADCOmfg.com, more than on...
Merry Christmas To All
“We’re sending you the warmest Christmas wishes to you and your family, from everyone at JADCO, in Harmony, PA. "May your Christmas days be snowy and bright; and may all your Christmas' be white."Thank you for the opportunity to assist in making your business successful.In 2025 we celebrated being in...
Are You Ready For Winter Weather?
Is Your Snow Removal Equipment Ready? The colder the temperatures, the greater you need to monitor your wear resistant steel on your snow removal equipment. Colder temperatures lower the impact resistance of any steel. The December 2025 Polar Vortex has arrived with a vengeance, bringing record cold and snow across...
WearVue™ – Wear Monitoring At-A-Glance
One of the greatest challenges for equipment with wear resistant steel; is determining when to replace it, before you have a breakdown. In the past, you had two options to determine the remaining thickness in your wear steel. 1st Choice:Hire an outside contractor to perform the testing, trusting they had...
CERAMIC vs. CHROMEWELD For Abrasion Resistance
As you may already know, Ceramic tile and Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) have different abrasion resistance profiles.CCO such as JADCO CHROMEWELD ™ 600 is a bimetallic wear plate designed for extremely high-wear industrial applications. It is designed to be more abrasion resistant than ceramic tiles.For most home and commercial...
Engineering Concerns
When you install wear plate that lasts longer than your current wear resistant steel, it doesn’t take any extra time. That is working smarter; not harder. When your underperforming wear plate fails, everything stops to change it out. That takes up all of your spare time you had in...
Buy The Better Product
At a paper industry conference, there was a discussion of higher priced, industry leading American made products versus cheaper Chinese competitors. One of the salesmen said...I don’t think there is any customer that will say, “Don’t send me a better product." This called to mind a prior sales call to a...
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OUR “WEAR PLATE WEDNESDAY” AUTHOR
RICH F.
“My hands on experience with wear resistant steel and welding solutions since 1993 will assist you to get longer equipment life and greater profitability.
As a guest welding instructor at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin; I deliver technical information and application expertise in everyday language; insuring the information is not only understood, but easily retained. You will not find 25-cent words in this Wear Plate Wednesday Blog, just straight forward information to deliver the best return on your efforts.”
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