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 Wear Resistant Steel Applications: The Greatest Wear Occurs In The Least Accessible Locations.
Here are two of the most commonly used bolts to retain Chrome Carbide Overlay wear plates:
(NOTE: If You Know How These Bolts Are Limited And Want To Skip This Review, LET’S IMMEDIATELY GO TO THE SOLUTION.
Conventional bolts known as cap screws are seldom used with wear plates, due to the head of the bolt possibly subjected to impact or abrasion wear. Once the head is worn away, the rest of the bolt will fall out, and your plate drops away.
Plow bolts or blade bolts are commonly used to fasten snowplows blades and cutting edges of heavy earth-moving equipment. This design potentially reduces wear on a conventional hex head cap screw.
Plow bolts are available with a flat or domed head. They require a square hole with a countersink to match the square shoulders on the bolt. This keeps it from spinning when you tighten it from the back side. In the above photo you can see the square hole below the countersink in this casting.
The Problem When Using These Fasteners In Chrome Carbide Plate
Chrome Carbide Overlays were designed to resist any type of wear. Standard carbide tooling was not designed for machining in chrome carbide. This usually means hand work, which may result with inaccurate bolt holes and poor fitting components.
This bark shredder CCO wear liner had an oversized, hand gouged hole which did not secure the bolt. Which meant the liner could not be tightened into place creating a safety hazard for the equipment.
Another popular bolt used for wear plate applications are flat head socket cap screws, commonly called Allen head bolts.
W.G. Allen filed the patent in 1909 for the recessed hex-driven safety screws. They require a countersunk hole and an Allen hex wrench to secure the bolt while you tighten down the nut.
Both of these fasteners have been in use for over a century, more than five decades before Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) wear plates were developed.
Every Chrome Carbide plate is designed to protect your equipment from external surface wear. This means the edges of the overlay must be also protected, or the exposed mild steel base plate will wear away rapidly.
Once uncovered from an oversized hole, the mild steel base plate will quickly wear away, as on this chute liner. The darker area below the flat head socket cap screw indicates where the base plate was been exposed below the CCO surface. If not detected, it will quickly wear through the wear liner as shown here. Continued wear may cause damage to the equipment structure.
Every mounting hole through CCO plate has the potential to suffer from accelerated wear.
Here Is The Installation Solution To Safeguard Your CCO Wear Plate
The ideal condition is to have no holes in the surface of your CCO plate.
This assures no premature wear of the base plate, allowing your valuable carbide wear surface to be unsupported and fall away.
You can see the CHROMEWELD ™ 600 wear liners inside this chute have no exposed fasteners of any kind.
They are held in place with studs welded to the back side of the base plate. This method eliminates the need for mechanics to be dropping bolts through the holes and trying to hold an Allen wrench to tighten each bolt into position.
Here you can see both sides of the chute. Having the ability to precisely locate the studs to match your drawings and existing bolt holes, assuring you will reduce the labor required to change out the worn liners faster than ever before.
Welding the specialty studs onto wear liners for industrial equipment requires dedicated equipment with plenty of power. This guarantees the studs do not pull out of the base plate.
Your liners are carefully protected for transit to avoid damaging the threaded studs. The studs also make it easier to pick up each plate and move them into position.
This Technology Has Been Proven In Use By The US Navy Since WW-2
This tool was initially developed in 1939 for structural use in US Navy applications. The inventor received two different Navy commendations for documented millions of shipbuilding man hours saved.
JADCO implemented this procedure decades ago for lining chutes in coal handling applications. Isn’t it time to implement yours?
Which Of Your Wear Liners Should Be Installed With Weld Studs?
How Much Time Could Be Saved?
Our entire CHROMEWELD family of CCO products are made at our headquarters in Harmony, PA, 30 minutes North of Pittsburgh.
To make certain we deliver the longest lasting materials to our customers, JADCO has created our own clad machines. This gives us total control over every aspect of making our industry leading CHROMEWELD overlay plate.
Never consider the CHROMEWELD ™ family of products as a “One Size Fits All” wear plate. Our customers are always looking to us for continuous improvement, and rely upon JADCO to continue to create new products, to address their specific wear challenges.
This further improves your wear plate performance results by having the Research and Development for these state-of-the-art wear resistant products. Each one is already completed and proven in real world applications, before you ever install them in your equipment.
For over 45 years, JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer life for our customers.
We pride ourselves to deliver “Walk Away Results” to you. This means after you install JADCO wear resistant steel products, we are both able to walk away knowing you will not lose sleep wondering if these wear products will fail in your equipment at the worst possible time. Not with JADCO.
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. This is why we deliver better performance results for our customers.
Allow us to help you today by emailing us at info@jadcomfg.com or calling (724) 452-5252.
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 usual clad plate gives out, give JADCO a shout!
