Hey guys this is Jason with Mount Baker Foundry and today we're gonna be casting
some of our own jaw dives for our small jaw crushers. But for the material I went
to the local scrap yard and I got this big huge horn out jaw dive, weighs about
1,500 pounds. And this is a real specific type of steel, this is about a 13%
manganese steel. So the first step is we're gonna have to cut it down into
strips so it'll fit in our furnace but then once we have it in strips we're
gonna melt it down pour it into our molds and make our own jaw plates.
Here's our big scrap chop plate I'll cut up into strips and we've loaded two of
them into our big tipping furnace. That we figure this is about 450 pounds of
manganese steel and that should get us two sets eight by twelve jaw plates.
And here's a set of our jaw plates that just got poured and shook out. We're
gonna take them over to the other shop, cut the gates and risers off and we'll put
them in a jaw crusher and we'll see how they crush.