Devcon Maintenance and Repair Solutions - Sintemar

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Location 43
Cement Agitator Repair
Wear Guard Fine Load
9/21/92
Chicago Road Service
Cement Manufacturing
Problem:
The fins or paddles within this portable cement mixer would receive extreme abrasive wear from
continually agitating cement. Previous method of repair was to protect fins or paddles by covering with
U.H.M.W. This repair procedure was expensive and time consuming.
Solution:
Repair surfaces were sandblasted to a SSPC-SP5 white metal finish. Expandable metal was tack welded in
a raised position 25 mils above the substrate. Tack welding expandable metal above the substrate
improved the mechanical bonding properties of Wear Guard Fine Load. Weld slag was removed using a
grinder and wire wheel attachment. All surfaces were then chemically cleaned using Cleaner Blend 300.
Wear Guard Fine Load was applied using a trowel to a thickness of 1/2”. Wear Guard Fine Load was
pressed through the expandable metal forcing complete contact onto the substrate surface. Wear Guard
Fine Load was smoothed, contoured and feathered using acetone as a thinning agent following gel point.