Home Corporate Markets Served Products Contact Careers Blog Resources EN BLOG NOV 24 HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2021 FROM JADCO Wear Plates, Wear Resistant Steel, Wear Steel It seems like the number of days between this Thanksgiving and last keep getting shorter. That means we must make the most of every day, and be thankful for the next one; for they are never guaranteed. We are very thankful for our customers, who see positive results using JADCO products every day of the year. JADCO continues to grow and add talented people to our family of employees. Rolling wear resistant steel plates to shape, requires specialized training to assure your formed wear plates fit accurately when they arrive. • We are pleased that JADCO QT-Plus through hardened wear resistant steel plates are still PROUDLY MADE IN AMERICA. • Our entire production team is running two sh... Read more Posted on 11/24/2021 at 12:00 PM Share NOV 17 USE TUNGSTEN CARBIDE HARDFACING FOR YOUR MOST AGGRESSIVE ABRASION CHALLENGES CCO, Extreme Abrasion, Flux Cored Wire, Best Welding Techniques, Abrasion Resistant, Nickel Alloy, Tungsten Carbide Particles, Hardfacing, Tungsten Carbide, Chrome Carbide Overlay, Wear Plate Wednesday FUSION™ W is a flux cored hardsurfacing wire containing 50-60% cast tungsten carbide suspended in a nickel alloy matrix. Giving it a combination of toughness and wear resistance, due to the tungsten carbides evenly distributed in the very tough and hard weld metal matrix. Unlike most other Tungsten wires, FUSION™ W has exceptional wetting characteristics. It performs best in extreme abrasion applications including corrosion challenges. In this cross section of a FUSION™ W weld bead, where you can see how the Tungsten Carbide particles are uniformly positioned throughout the deposit. The scale length is 5mm or 5 microns. There are 24,500 microns per inch, showing how these ti... Read more Posted on 11/17/2021 at 04:50 PM Share NOV 10 HOW TO TELL WHEN YOUR CHROME CARBIDE PLATE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED Chrome Carbide, CCO, Wear Plate Wednesday, combat abrasive wear, Plasma Cut, Countersunk Holes, AR400 Chrome Carbide Overlay (CCO) Plates last many times longer than AR400 wear steel. They were designed to combat wear from nearly any sliding abrasive material. However they do not last forever. If you are a fairly new user of CCO plates in your equipment, you may wonder how you can tell when it is time to replace it, before it fails completely. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTICE WHEN THE WELD BEADS ARE NO LONGER VISIBLE, AS ABOVE AND BELOW THE HOLE IN THE CENTER OF THE CHUTE, INDICATES IT IS TIME TO REPLACE THE CCO WEAR PLATES. THIS IS HOW YOU CAN TELL WHEN YOU NEED TO REPLACE YOUR CCO PLATES BEFORE THEY WEAR INTO THE MILD STEEL BASE PLATE. This competitor’s clad plate was no match for the conti... Read more Posted on 11/10/2021 at 12:00 PM Share NOV 03 HOW TO GET WEAR PLATE TO FIT BETTER Loader, Wear Liner, T-1, Excavator, Wear Plate Wednesday, Bucket, Bucket Bottom, A514, Dogging, Wear Plate The best time to install a wear liner in any loader or excavator bucket is when your equipment is new. Measurements are accurate and the equipment will last longer. This is due to the OEM buckets using A514 or T-1 steel. These are structural steels that are somewhat more wear resistant than mild steel. They are not designed as wear resistant steel however. Here a wear liner installed in a new piece of equipment fits like a glove. Always preheat before you weld, to make certain you get the moisture out of the steel. Notice the plug weld holes in the liner, which should always be located within 18” of each other and every edge. WHEN MOST PEOPLE THINK ABOUT GETTING A WEAR LINER, THE EQUIPM... Read more Posted on 11/03/2021 at 11:00 AM Share OCT 27 WHAT WEAR PLATE DO YOU USE FOR STICKY MATERIALS? Sticky material, Mining, Hopper Liners, Chrome Carbide, Processing Ore, Haul Truck Liners, Chromeweld Glide, Chutes, Wear Plate Wednesday, CCO , Chrome weld Mining requires substantial processing to separate the ore from the surrounding materials. When your ore is covered by clay and other sticky materials, it makes your job more difficult. The solution to the sticking issue is having a Chrome Carbide Overlay plate that is perfectly smooth. Starting with our industry leading Chromeweld ™ 600 CCO plate, we Blanchard grind the Chrome Carbide Overlay to a mirror finish, to create Chromeweld ™ Glide. You will notice the stress checks are more visible after it has been polished. People not familiar with CCO plates often think this is a product defect. In fact these stress checks are designed to prevent the welding stresses from separating th... Read more Posted on 10/27/2021 at 11:00 AM Share OCT 20 NEVER USE MAGNETS TO LIFT WEAR PLATE Never Use Magnets On Wear Plate, Metal Recycling, Welding Magnetized Steel, Wear Plate Wednesday, Electromagnet A longtime metal recycling customer called saying he was having an issue for the first time welding our QT-Plus ® wear plate. This was a surprise since QT-Plus ® was designed to be easy to weld. He explained the welding arc was nearly uncontrollable, “It is dancing all over the place.” I said, “It sounds like you have magnetized the steel plate.” Fabricating their own scrap metal recycling bin, the welder had difficulty welding the stiffener channels onto the wear plate sides. When I arrived, we looked at the bin he was working on and he showed me how the arc danced all over and wouldn’t allow for a good structural weldment where it was needed. Experimentin... Read more Posted on 10/20/2021 at 12:50 PM Share OCT 13 WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER? abrasion resistant, wear plate, chute, chromeweld, chrome weld, wear plate wednesday Giving you the knowledge on how to get the best results on your own? Or delivering your desired results? MOST PEOPLE WILL PAY MORE FOR THE OUTCOME THAN THE RECIPE. Most people are looking for “How do I use the Easy Button to get what I want, without going through the 10,000 hours of work required to become an expert?” It is harder to buckle down into discovering what happened to cause the wear issue. And it is even more difficult to go deep using critical thinking and goal-achievement tactics to figure it out. But when you do, and you do it so well that you're actually itching for another opportunity in the same situation, to put your new info, refined skills and positive attitude to... Read more Posted on 10/13/2021 at 08:00 PM Share OCT 06 WEAR PLATE PRICING AND SUPPLY CHAIN UPDATE wear resistant steel, supply chain, Made In The USA, steel logistics, American Made Steel, wear plate wednesday, wear plate, Made In America, steel hardness The news recently has been filled in a near panic about how supply chain disruptions continue to limit necessary materials and drive up prices. Add to that the blockage to off-load container ships at the US harbors and the problem is compounded. Read more Posted on 10/06/2021 at 12:00 PM Share SEP 29 INCREASE YOUR PIPING WEAR LIFE iron ore pellet mill, piping life, schedule 80 piping, wear plate wednesday, dust collection pipe, Hardened Pipe There is a lot of pipe used in an iron ore pellet mill, handling hot pellets and hot dust. Both are extremely abrasive materials. This means maintenance has to replace some sections within the plant nearly every week. The 10” and 12” schedule 80 piping is often replaced after a few weeks to several months depending on the application and location within the plant. WHAT ABOUT USING INDUCTION HARDENED PIPING? Using ID Hardened piping often helps for reducing abrasive wear in many applications. However, you must be cautious when using this material in a high heat environment. When you exceed about 500° F the hardened steel pipe will anneal, resulting in it going back to mild steel... Read more Posted on 09/29/2021 at 06:14 PM Share SEP 22 CREATING YOUR WEAR PLATE ACTION PLAN target your focus, wear plate, maintenance manager, game changer, AR400, chain deck, wear resistant steel, trigger a shutdown, Wear Plate Wednesday, mechanical maintenance, strategic planning We worked with a maintenance manager who was recently thrust into a new department. He was nearly overwhelmed because he was out of his element. Up until now he had been trained as an electrician at a large papermill who worked his way up to Electrical & Instrumentation supervisor. The company moves people around into different departments every couple of years. We had met in passing on a couple of earlier projects, so we knew each by sight. But now he was in an area with little personal experience. It is not your fault when the company makes you in charge of mechanical maintenance for a production area with no training. Worse, they had little documentation or background on what failed previous... Read more Posted on 09/22/2021 at 01:13 PM Share ^ JADCO MANUFACTURING INC 167 Evergreen Mill Rd, Harmony,PA 724-452-5252 HOME CORPORATE BLOG JADCO Manufacturing © 2021 A mopro Website