WELCOME TO WEAR PLATE WEDNESDAY
USING A WEAR EVALUATION PROCESS
JADCO client/customers recognize we do things differently than other wear-resistant steel vendors. One major difference is we partner with our customers, and implement our Wear Evaluation Process. "If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing." Dan Sullivan’s Law of Process The...
HOW TO MAKE YOUR EQUIPMENT BETTER
You have a lot of money, time, and sweat equity invested in your production equipment. Whether it’s new equipment, or if it’s well-piled and has seen several seasons, you need to constantly do what you can to maximize and improve your uptime and equipment longevity. The wear plates in your...
WEAR PLATE BUYER BEWARE
The wear steel industry has plenty of order takers who will promise you a wear solution without concern if it fits your application or not. It doesn’t take you long to discover if the products you invested in will actually solve your problem, or only continue to prolong your...
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR WEAR PLATE ISN’T WORKING
Our most profitable customers have several traits in common, especially in documenting their test results. They also know when to drop things after testing shows that it is not delivering better results. You know what they say..."The best way to get out of a hole is to stop digging...
PARTNERING WITH JADCO
Our valued customers/clients often see a domino effect of positive results when they partner with JADCO.As you may or may not know, every client that partners with JADCO will spend much less time replacing their AR400, AR450 or AR500 wear plate; that is a given fact. It is why...
JADCO EXPANDS FUSION WELDING LINE WITH NEW ULTRABOND E
CUSTOMERS ASK... JADCO DELIVERS Over recent years, the industry results using JADCO UltraBond welding wire for installing QT-Plus®, AR400, AR500, and other heat-treated wear-resistant steel has been highly successful. Our customers have been so impressed with FUSION™ UltraBond wire, they requested we offer the matching performance in a stick...
WHAT STEEL IS BEST FOR CHAIN SPROCKETS
WHY DO YOU NOT RUN A NEW SPROCKET ON AN OLD CHAIN? If you install a new sprocket and run on the used chain, your pitch is going to be offset. Pitch is the distance from one pin to the next pin, and that distance needs to match both the...
POOR ATTEMPTS AT WEAR PLATE SAVINGS COSTS TIME & MONEY
Working with wear-resistant steel in heavy industry, we are often overwhelmed by daily, if not hourly issues and challenges. Early in my career, I would ask people what wear problems they had experienced, and surprisingly, 90% of the people responded that they didn’t have ANY wear problems. This was...
DID YOU KNOW AR400 STEEL HAS NO INDUSTRY STANDARDS?
The name AR400 steel indicates to most people the steel they are buying is 400 BHN (Brinell) hardness. Because there are no industry guidelines or standards for wear plate, it can be any hardness at all. We have seen foreign-made steel wear plate sold as AR400; test at 302...
WORKING WITH THE NEXT GENERATION OF SKILLED WORKERS
Every manufacturing company in the USA is trying to find workers as the Baby Boomers are retiring from the workforce daily. It is a challenge for every firm and skilled trades in particular. While high tech can assist in getting information to the masses, they are not at the...
WHY DO WELDS CRACK ON WEAR PLATE?
Everyone has experienced a time when “chemistry” between two people interacting is not compatible. Unfortunately, the same is often true when welding wear resistant steel.Lets look closely at where and how these cracks occur; and how to tell what caused the crack. When a crack runs down the center of...
CAN YOU IDENTIFY IF YOU HAVE A WEAR PLATE PROBLEM?
It is amazing what people accept as ‘Standard Performance’ from the wear-resistant steel in their production equipment. They become very good at changing failed wear plates after yet another breakdown. First-time customers are often amazed at the additional life JADCO QT-PLUS ® through-hardened steel delivers compared to what they have...
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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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