welcome to well.com so i've been reading all the comments and everybody's been asking where bob is
well here he is bob from frankenfab and he's going to show us some hard facing today
so welcome to whale.com today we have bob from frankenfab that's going to explain and walk
us through the whole process of doing this hard facing today we are gonna uh prep some plate here
which would be like a wear plate that we put on say like uh excavator bucket or densifier heads
or even inside crusher walls we're going to grind all the mill scale off we're going to draw out
some lines for our for our hard facing rod we're going to preheat it get it up to about 400 degrees
check it with our temp stick and then we're going to get to laying down some beads
all right so we're going to prep these plates we're going to remove all this mill scale with
the flap disc we're going to draw out some lines get our markings for what we're going to weld out
we're going to preheat it and then we're going to lay down some beads and then we're also going to
do another section where we're going to do uh a surface build up which is like a buttering layer
and then we're going to run some more welding process hard facing over that so that you get a
little better idea of what we're doing standard build up versus uh buttering
layer build up and then uh hopefully you guys will have a better idea of what hard facing is
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all right before we get started on the equipment we first want to make sure that
we got our power turned off and then also inside of most of your boxes inside of your
information boxes there's going to be some sort of power shut off we disconnected the antenna which
was a protocol for this machine and any machine that you're not sure of there should be some kind
of guidebook to let you know what you should do for your safety procedures or lockouts safety pins
any of those sort of situations all right we're inside this crusher cavity here and we're going
to focus on these wear plates here we're going to do some hard facing on these these ones have
already been done so we are going to prep these ones clean all this trash and concrete out of here
and uh sand these down get them a nice shine to them draw out some lines on them do some
preheating and then we're going to get to hard facing these plates these plates are designed
for when when the rocks come in they get pulverized under this rotor here
and then they take a beading onto this back wall and this back wall is to help prevent
you know wear and tear from the rest of the machine so we are going to add some
hard face into these wear plates to extend the life of the wear plates because they are not
cheap and us hard facing them will get them an extra use so that's where we're going to start
all right so we're just drawing out a little simple line pattern here it's just to
kind of keep us uniform and uh it really helps just with the wear we could run them different
pattern a lot of times we do checkerboard pattern or sometimes we'll do just random patterns but
for this machinery it keeps it real simple just to run standard lines out and it helps prevent
you know keeps the wear up and that's how we're doing all right so we're getting
prepped we're ready to go we're going to do some preheating with the torch over here
and then we're going to use the alpha tig the new alpha tig 225 xi to run our hard facing passes so
we're gonna get this thing fired up and then we'll get ready we're gonna start running the torch
and then almost right after that we're gonna start laying down some beads while our plate's still hot
i think we're gonna run about uh 120 amps we're going to be using this post alloy uh tubular
hard facing rods pretty slick we also got some studi35 rods we're
going to try and run some passes on those too to give you guys a little
description a different idea of how the different rods burn and then we'll check it out when we're
done
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all right so you see we just got these rods laid out i got a checkerboard pattern in here
it's similar to what we normally do in the field what we're going to do over here is we're going to
simulate a piece of equipment that was worn down and is in need of build up and also hard facing so
we're going to run some bowler fox ev 50s 7018 rod to run a base layer and then we're going
to clean that and stack some new hard facing rod right over the top of that and let's check it out
all right welcome back we just got done running this bowler fox ev507018 rods as our uh build
up or our buttering layer we do this in certain situations where say like the equipment is worn
down and it has a dramatic wear to it we do this 7018 build up to bring back bring
back to life what was there and then we'll lay our hard facing rod right over the top of that
in some situations with different kinds of shears or different kinds of pieces of equipment
you're not supposed to put a hard facing rod directly onto the parent material
so in some situations we do run a 7018 rod as a base and then we'll run the hard facing over
that in this situation we are bringing back what was worn out so now we're just going to clean it
up a little bit and then run some hard facing rod over that and we'll see how it turns out
now this is all ground down we're gonna lay some hard facing rods right over the top
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all right we just got done laying down these hard facing rods over the top of our
7018 buttered layer you can definitely see how it turned out a little bit better
beads wise and golden arm look again doesn't really matter as long as these rods as long as
this bead is doing its job in preventing wear and tear on our on our main equipment all right so if
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