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Wheelabrator® Single Bar Machine

Product News Tuesday, April 10, 2007: Wheelabrator

Wheelabrator® Single Bar Machine

Wheelabrator’s new equipment and aftermarket sales personnel worked with engineering to create a new machine that satisfied all three requirements. The result is a Wheelabrator® Single Bar machine featuring eight 60 hp EZEFIT™ blast wheels. The single bar machine exceeded the customer's expectations cleaning rounds, flats, squares, hex shapes, in sizes up to six inches wide by 4 inches high. Importantly, no spiraling residual scale remained on rounds after blasting, eliminating the problem that had the most negative effect on the production capacity. Other improvements include more effective shot retention with longer vestibules and polyurethane work opening seals that provide extended wear life. Also, air inlet and exhaust plenums were sized and positioned to provide effective cabinet ventilation while improving shot containment. Now, minimal shot escapes, even when Nucor runs their widest flat bars.

A manufacturer employee said, “I have been working on Wheelabrator machines for 15 years, and I honestly have to say that the EZEFIT wheels are definitely one of the best. When we started our new 8-wheel Wheelabrator single bar machine, I asked my colleague to check the amp meters because I thought there was no shot going to the wheels.

They were so much quieter than our old wheels; I had to be sure they were in fact running. We have just recently installed our first tune up kit, and I can see we will not have to worry about any of the liners or the cast manganese housing anytime soon.” The EZEFIT family of wheels offers the latest technology in wheel design that reduces maintenance cost and improves productivity. The inherent advantage of bi-directional rotation and the ability to be used in clockwise or counterclockwise wheel applications with a single style wheel can lower parts inventory costs. Wheelabrator has capitalized on this advantage with a direct-drive design that offers standard or custom base mounting for increased versatility. EZEFIT wheels are available in 3-1/2” or 2-1/2” blade widths. A variety of wheel diameters from 13” to 27” with 3600 RPM and 1800 RPM versions are offered in order to meet any application TARGETLOK® control cage positioning, now a standard feature on all EZEFIT wheels, insures consistent blast pattern targeting no matter how many times the tune-up kits are changed.

TARGET-TRAK™ blast pattern adjustment, a new feature that allows the control of blast pattern targeting from the control panel, provides the ability to adjust the blast wheel targeting for more efficient blast performance.

Wheelabrator Plus, the parts, equipment modernization and service division of the Wheelabrator Group, helps customers improve the efficiency of their existing blast equipment operations. Focusing solely on the aftermarket, Wheelabrator Plus works with all customers to provide effective solutions for difficult cleaning problems. Wheelabrator Plus regionally based sales and service teams provide an extensive range of Equipment Modernization Programs (EMP) and support services including: on-site training, maintenance, repair and service programs, as well as a complete range of replacement parts for a variety of wheel blast and air blasting applications.