How to Extend the Life of Excavator Bucket Teeth?

With the continuous use of excavators. Excavator bucket teeth wear and tear will be increasing. Naturally, its service life will be greatly shortened. So what measures should we take to extend the service life of excavator bucket tooth?

Use the Right Teeth

the use of excavator bucket teeth should first be the right choice, and for the material to determine the need to be carried out according to the environment, the only way to be able to better ensure that the choice of the right, and the correct choice of bucket teeth in use Also can play the best performance.

Daily Inspection

In the daily maintenance of excavator, take 2 minutes to check the bucket every day. The bucket body is the degree of wear and whether there are cracks. If the degree of wear is serious, reinforcement should be considered. As for the cracks in the bucket body, timely repair welding should be carried out to avoid increasing the length of the cracks due to delayed maintenance, resulting in the situation that maintenance is impossible. In addition, kick the digging bucket teeth with your feet to check whether the bucket ruler is stable. If the bucket teeth are loose, they should be tightened immediately.

Timely Replacement

the wear of the tooth seat on the bucket teeth of the excavator life is also very important, tooth wear off 10%-15% after the proposed replacement of the tooth, because the wear and tear of the teeth and the big There is a large gap between the teeth, so that the teeth and teeth with the seat, and the force point has changed, the bucket teeth due to changes in the force and fracture.

Operation Precautions

1. Pay attention to the operating angle

excavator driver in the operation of the angle of operation should pay attention to, as far as possible when digging, when the bucket teeth digging perpendicular to the face, or outside the tilt angle of not more than 120 degrees, to avoid excessive Bucket teeth. But also pay attention not to have a greater resistance in the case of left and right swinging the arm, which will make the teeth and teeth due to the left and right force is too large and broken.

2. Do not swing the excavator arm from side to side in the case of great resistance, as it is easy to fracture the bucket teeth and tooth base due to too much force on the left and right sides, without considering the force design on the left and right sides.

3.In the process of using the bucket teeth of the excavator, the outermost bucket teeth are 30% faster than the innermost worn parts. After a period of time, the inside and outside of the bucket teeth can be exchanged.

4. It is recommended to replace the tooth base when the tooth base is worn away by 10%. There is a larger gap between the worn tooth base and the bucket teeth.

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