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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...
You Bought The Wrong Wear Plate, Now What?
YOU ARE NOT ALONE...At some point, everyone reading this has bought something that was promoted as a “Can’t Miss Deal”, that failed miserably shortly after it was installed.Doesn’t it seem the people who are the most relaxed in performing their jobs, are the ones who invest in the best...
Prioritize Your Greatest Challenge
The way you get more freedom and time in your life, is to get through the tough spots as quickly as possible. HOW? Prioritize the essential developments for your business, to create the necessary leaps forward. This is more important than any emails. Once this has been identified and listed in...
JADCO Listens to What You Want!
Every salesperson strives to be a hero for their customer.They want to be the "Go-To-Person" who they have on speed dial, confident we can bail them out of another jam.But Remember...You Can’t Be A Hero When You Just Look Out For Yourself.How often do salespeople seem to ignore the...
What Thickness Wear Plate Should I Use?
The fast answer to this question... It depends on your application, equipment limitations, current thickness and how long your existing wear plate lasts. All steel is sold by the pound. For conversation, let’s compare ½” to ¾” thick wear plate. If you are only looking at the purchase price,...
Can You Drill and Tap JADCO QT-PLUS® ?
Our customer’s questions make us realize you may have the similar questions regarding wear resistant steel. This is a perfect reason to look at ‘Wear Plate Wednesday’, our weekly Blog Post.One of our most frequent questions is:Can you drill JADCO QT-PLUS ® with 500 BHN hardness? The answer is yes...
JADCO Wear Liners Fit. Period.
Minimizing downtime in production facilities is critical. Customers rely on JADCO to deliver wear liners that fit every time, without major modifications. This is particularly important when your maintenance shutdown has a tight time frame. Accurately measuring your equipment while still in production, makes the process challenging. Difficult locations make it nearly impossible...
Chrome Carbide Overlay Vs. Cast White Iron…Which Is Best For Your Application?
There are often questions regarding which material should be used in high stress grinding abrasion applications. Is it better to utilize Cast High Chrome White Iron, or Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) – and what are the differences? This bulldozer blade has been lined with JADCO CHROMEWELD ™600. It has superior...
Are You Modifying New Replacement Parts?
Visiting a papermill woodyard recently during their annual maintenance outage, the customer was planning to install their new chipper hood. Rather than the millwrights busy with the installation, they were standing and looking at the replacement hood still laying on the ground. Annual Outages Have A Limited Time Frame To...
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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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