Protect Your Stabilizer Drill
Many people have become familiar with drilling into the earth, from watching the History Channel television series, The Curse of Oak Island.
The most common purpose for drilling, is not to find buried treasure, but to obtain water. Drilling wells hundreds of feet deep exposes the drill to high stress abrasion as it turns its way into the aquifer.
The 10’ long x 10” diameter shaft supporting the well drilling head, is called the stabilizer. Its job is to keep the hole as straight as possible. The stabilizer end is larger in diameter than the 25’ long drill rods that follow it. This allows the drill mud to carry the removed material up and out of the hole. The stabilizer requires protection from the constant friction as it spins while boring into the earth.
To protect the stabilizer from extreme wear, most companies apply hardfacing, which requires substantial labor with minimal surface protection.
They tried to use AR400 pads, but as they are not the same hardness throughout, the heat treated pads would wear away rapidly.
Tricone bits are used to bore into the earth, fitted with solid Tungsten carbide bumps on the end. This bit was invented to drill through all types of earth. It will take on anything from soft limestone to hard volcanic rock.
To protect the stabilizer from non-stop abrasion, the customer now welds JADCO CHROMEWELD ™ 600 Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) plates, sized appropriately in various locations to protect against abrasion wear.
The Stabilizer Wear Pads Install Faster And Last Longer
As the leading manufacturer of Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) plate in the USA, you can depend on the results you get from JADCO. Our entire CHROMEWELD ™ family of CCO products are made at our headquarters in Harmony, PA, located 30 minutes North of Pittsburgh.JADCO has created our own clad machines to make certain we deliver the longest lasting materials to our customers,. This gives us 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 look to us for continuous wear resistant improvement. They rely upon JADCO to create new products to address their specific wear challenges.
This improves your wear plate performance results further; it’s like having your own Research and Development for state-of-the-art wear resistant products. Each one has already been proven in real world applications, before you ever install them in your equipment.
For the last 45 years JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer equipment life for our customers.
Now you understand why we deliver better results to our customers. By strictly focusing on improving your current results, we look at the wear process differently. This is why we deliver better performance results, and lower cost of ownership 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 is profit.