The Rebuild Welding Process

Introduction:

At Eyre & Smith Re-Build Tracks and Welding we specialise in rebuilding and hard-facing using sub-arc welding techniques of rollers and idlers as well as no-track related products such as mill rollers for other fabrication shops. We use some of the latest sophisticated equipment combined with highly experienced staff and past years of trial and error to produce some of the best hard-facing results seen anywhere in today’s related industries.

Equipment:

The range of automatic welding equipment in our workshop consists of:

Straight-line automatic sub-arc with attachments that can rotate jobs up to 2 ton (cutting or welding)
Sub-arc cutting and automatic welding of jobs up to 500kg

Sub-arc cutting and automatic welding of jobs up to 1.5 ton

Automatic twin sub-arc oscillating capable of open arc welding and cutting

Automatic positioner, rotator sub-arc welder for jobs up to 3 ton and 3 metres in diameter

Range of sub-arc welding equipment

A range of sub-arc welding equipment including straight-line and automatic oscillating heads

Pre-heating:

Pre-heating to product, material specification is undertaken by the use of either LPG burners (torches) or our 2 cubic metre (2^3) heating oven where pre and post heating can be achieved up to 400 degrees C