Mad Machinist
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Here's an idea to help you out.
Here's an idea to help you out.
Hello
Most people don't have access to a ball mill. This one will try to make a set of 'Rolls' to carry out in the field but not to start with. Thank you every one for your input.
Excellent point about the hard facing of the rolls work hardening to the point of getting brittle. The pipe this one is thinking of using has a wall thickness of about 3/4 inch thick. Hope that by running some beads of hardening rod and cooling as fast as possible will keep the warpage or movement down? Any ideas here?f your looking at a set of high pressure rolls to crush ore, you WILL need to hard face the rolls. Otherwise they will not last long crushing ore. They will also hard faced again and again as the hard facing will wear. All the old hard facing will need to be ground or machined off before new hard facing is applied as you CANNOT place new hard facing over old hard facing due to it becoming extremely brittle.
Do most people just use a rod or roll just once not wanting to machine off the older hard face surface. Are there any tricks to try?you WILL need to hard face the rolls. Otherwise they will not last long crushing ore. They will also hard faced again and again as the hard facing will wear.
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Mad Machinist pointed out:
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Excellent point about the hard facing of the rolls work hardening to the point of getting brittle. The pipe this one is thinking of using has a wall thickness of about 3/4 inch thick. Hope that by running some beads of hardening rod and cooling as fast as possible will keep the warpage or movement down? Any ideas here?
Have taken a 1 1/8 inch shaft and added metal to one end of the shaft to then machine on a lathe down to 1 1/2 inch to be welded into the pipe with 3/4 inch walls to make a roll. Sounds like the roll is a one shot item?
The jaw crusher plates have two layers of hard facing rod welded on them. Made the plates bow bad. have not flattened yet. Any tips out there on this?
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This old jaw crusher was built to be a one shot unit with the old worn out babbit bearings. However there is enough cast iron mass in the rest of the unit to line bore out the babbit bearings and press in more modern bronze bushing bearings. The jaw plates where long ago wore out as well.
Wish this one could talk to you Mad Machinist in person as you know about metals and machining.
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Mad Machinist pointed out:
Do most people just use a rod or roll just once not wanting to machine off the older hard face surface. Are there any tricks to try?
This one has read that even with a ball mill the rods may only last a few tons at best? If this is the case the same is true of the 'Rolls' this one is thinking of making. Thank you for your input Mad Machinist. Hope you get something out of my 'Green question' posts.........LOL