F.J.
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not sure if this is in the right section but as the attachment fits to an excavator I thought i might get away with it?
Had these jaws delivered so the teeth could be built up and hard faced along with other areas and also had to hard face and fit ten new teeth. It was a beast and weighed in close to a ton.
Started off by having the inside of the jaws blasted and ground away the surface of the teeth to start afresh with building them up close to the original shape, I then built up a few layers using 7018 rods and hard faced with HF-254 rods. As I was close to finishing the customer came in and wanted more work doing so to speed the job up I bought a reel of hard facing wire, to put in perspective, a 15kg reel of normal steel mig wire 1.2mm is around £20, this reel cost me £220!!!! But it didn't half help me rattle the job off.
Edges were built up and pads of welds were laid to ensure he got an extended life out of his jaws as he owns a very busy demolition firm and his equipment is very rarely out of use. The paint was added purely for aesthetics for first use as he loves his machines to be and look the best, no doubt there isn't a speck of paint left on them now as he used them to knock down the old Dunlop factory where Jaguar is in Birmingham yesterday.
On arrival when I dropped them off he had a ditching bucket lined up for me to put a new bottom in and wear plate so there will be another thread coming soon about that one. The Ford ranger isn't mine by the way, I had to hire it for the day as my sprinter is out of action but what a truck! I am having one for a weekend when I get back of my holidays to see if I like it enough to buy one but it's a close one between that and a disco 3! I towed the jaws to Birmingham from Manchester, picked the bucket up and drove to west brom to look at a job then back to Manchester on just half a tank of diesel!! Not bad for an auto sat on the m6 car park stopping and starting every 5 minutes
Had these jaws delivered so the teeth could be built up and hard faced along with other areas and also had to hard face and fit ten new teeth. It was a beast and weighed in close to a ton.
Started off by having the inside of the jaws blasted and ground away the surface of the teeth to start afresh with building them up close to the original shape, I then built up a few layers using 7018 rods and hard faced with HF-254 rods. As I was close to finishing the customer came in and wanted more work doing so to speed the job up I bought a reel of hard facing wire, to put in perspective, a 15kg reel of normal steel mig wire 1.2mm is around £20, this reel cost me £220!!!! But it didn't half help me rattle the job off.
Edges were built up and pads of welds were laid to ensure he got an extended life out of his jaws as he owns a very busy demolition firm and his equipment is very rarely out of use. The paint was added purely for aesthetics for first use as he loves his machines to be and look the best, no doubt there isn't a speck of paint left on them now as he used them to knock down the old Dunlop factory where Jaguar is in Birmingham yesterday.
On arrival when I dropped them off he had a ditching bucket lined up for me to put a new bottom in and wear plate so there will be another thread coming soon about that one. The Ford ranger isn't mine by the way, I had to hire it for the day as my sprinter is out of action but what a truck! I am having one for a weekend when I get back of my holidays to see if I like it enough to buy one but it's a close one between that and a disco 3! I towed the jaws to Birmingham from Manchester, picked the bucket up and drove to west brom to look at a job then back to Manchester on just half a tank of diesel!! Not bad for an auto sat on the m6 car park stopping and starting every 5 minutes
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