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Tungsten Carbide Plate Versus Tungsten Drop
Tungsten, the hardest metallic element known, has long been used for its exceptional wear resistance properties. While companies often incorporate Tungsten particles into welding wire matrices for wear protection, the effectiveness of these materials can be compromised when the matrix wears away, causing the carbide particles to fall out.At...
JADCO Delivers Straight Talk
This week’s blog post is an excerpt from a recent interview with JADCO President, Sam Anderson. In the discussion, Sam discusses JADCO’s industry leading Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) plate, CHROMEWELD ™ 600, and the differences found in competitor’s CCO products. “I often talk about base plate thickness in overlay plate....
Understand the Best Way To Mount Chrome Carbide Plate
Wear plates are usually retained with bolts or welded in place. When you have easy access to both sides of your wear plate liners, bolting them in place is simple. For some reason, the easy locations never seem to wear out.Unfortunately the opposite is also true. Murphy’s Law Of...
Zero Chatter Drag Chain Liners
Most OEM’s use 1” thick Ni-hard strips held down by countersunk bolts. This labor intensive process may take 3 to 4 days to install on your incline.CHROMEWELD ™ 600 plates install in one day. The competitor’s claim CW600 only has 1/4” of chrome carbide for wear protection. While their...
Are You Testing Wear Plate?
Last Sunday, the NASCAR season started with their biggest race of the year, the Daytona 500. This race is often referred to as NASCAR's Super Bowl, held on the first Sunday of the season. Every team diligently tests, searching for another 0.003 of a second faster around the 2.5...
WEAR STEEL FOR A GREENER FUTURE
Opting for JADCO's wear steel products for your applications and equipment not only enhances performance, but also minimizes our collective environmental footprint.How does JADCO wear resistant steel products reduce your environmental impact? Steel making is tremendously energy intensive.Sixty (60) TONS of greenhouse gases (GHG) are produced in making one...
Top 10 Wear Plate Posts From 2024
JADCO’s “Wear Plate Wednesday” Blog Posts cover more than our products. We feature a wide variety of industry specific wear applications, that frustrate most people. After each year, we review all posts and rank them based on your interest and present them to you, in case you missed any the...
JADCO Can Transform Your Business
Pop Quiz: How often have you dealt with salespeople who didn’t listen to what you said you needed, and just waited to talk about their products? My guess is far too often.The last thing you need are more people wasting your time and ignoring your needs. Amazing how people ignore...
Happy New Year from JADCO: Building a Stronger Future Together
As the clock strikes midnight and we welcome 2025, JADCO Manufacturing is reflecting on an incredible year of growth, innovation, and commitment to delivering the world’s most reliable wear steel products. From the mines of South Africa to paper mills in the Pacific Northwest & Canada, our mission has...
Merry Christmas Everyone
At this 'Happy Holiday' time of year, we take a moment to tell each of our customers, employees, and business partners how much we appreciate you and your business this past year. We understand there are several competitors you could select for your wear resistant material needs.Thank you for the...
The Secret To Longer Rotary Feeder Life
Rotary Feeders are one of the most used pieces of equipment by every Pulp & Paper and Biomass industry.Feeding a consistent quantity of bark for boiler fuel is critical for the steam generating system.The wear happens when tiny pieces of bark work their way between the rotor and housing....
Never Use Manganese In Abrasion Areas
Manganese is one of the most misunderstood steels for wear resistant steel applications.Manganese is used extensively in the mining, aggregate, foundries, metal recycling, and railroad industries.They all utilize Manganese in similar types of machinery, for the same functions in crushing applications. Whether you are shredding junk and car bodies...
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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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