Mining & Quarry Supplies

AR plate receives impact from heavy loads, abrasive and sharp material. Your equipment does not.

Typical applications for AR200 steel plate are cement mixer drums and fins, bulk material handling chute liners, skirt board liners, and screw conveyers. AR plate protects equipment against wear, although it is not for structural applications.

Typical AR plate products range from 200 to 500 in their name; for example, AR 200, AR 400, and AR 500. These numbers designate the hardness of the material in Brinell (BHN). The higher the hardness of the material, the more resistant it will be to abrasive wear.

AR400F has a nominal hardness of 400BHN. AR400F is used in equipment subject to abrasive wear. Examples are truck beds, crushers, hoppers, buckets, chutes, conveyor troughs, bulldozers, concrete mixer drums and excavators.

AR 200 plate is designed for general impact and abrasion applications, while AR 400F and AR 500F are designed to withstand high abrasion, low impact conditions. AR plate can be bolted down and welded onto the surface to protect your investment. Buffalo Wire will analyze your application and recommend you the most cost/effective AR plate.

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Our High alumina ceramic liners are specially used in extremely highly abrasive applications. Ceramic liners provide optimum sliding surface for bulk material handling. It replaces UHMW and urethane sheets, and other plastic liners that distort and wear out. Ceramic liner’s low coefficient of friction and stable surface provide years of maintenance-free service. The tile size, shape and layout are determined by the customers’ protection requirements.

Ceramic liners are particularly suitable for many applications like:

• Deflectors / Impact Plates
• Chutes
• Bins / Hoppers
• Skirt Liners
• Stackers & Reclaimers

In many cases wear is caused by a combination of material impact and abrasion, Buffalo Wire offers a solution in which our high alumina ceramic is used in combination with rubber. This combination allows the ceramic to float in a shocking absorbing media, providing the ultimate protection against abrasion by the ceramic and impact by the rubber. Our in-house engineering, manufacturing and technicians in the field will allow us to recommend you the most beneficial solution for any given processing application, improve reliability and reduce cost.

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Rubber liners solve your problems of impact, large and sharp material damage, and reduces noise. It is used to cover and protect surfaces that suffer extreme impact, shredding, and abrasion. Our rubber liners also reduces mechanical fatigue and fractures and is normally used when the material is large, irregular, or sharp. It has been successfully used to protect dozers, crushers, discharge areas, transfer of material areas, and cover truck beds that receive between 10 and 400 tons of material.

Rubber reduces noise and is lighter than AR plate. Our rubber liners can last up to three times more than plate when in contact with abrasive materials and up to five times more under impact conditions.

Available in thicknesses of 1”– 5” and may have a metal backing of ¼” or 3/8”. It can also be supplied with no metal backing. Rubber liners can be cut to 48” x 96” or 48” x 120”, or to your own sizing needs. Available in 45 – 50A hardness to withstand greater impact and they are used for larger sized particles. 65A hardness sheets are more widely used for abrasion and smaller sized particles.

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Protecting your investment with wear parts is extremely important. Let us help you do just that with our high-quality polyurethane magnetic liners. With no bolts, adhesives, welding, cutting or retro fitting required, we guarantee a quick and easy installation. Our liners are efficient in both static and vibratory applications. Rotation is also very quick and allows one to protect high wear areas easily.

Products Offered:

· Discharge Lips
· Feed Lips
· Pan Liners
· Chute Liners
· Cross Tube Protection
· General Frame Protection

Meeting your specific needs is our ultimate goal; that is why we create custom solutions for your specifications and requirements. Buffalo Wire’s liners can be made in various shapes and designs and is also available with ceramic inserts.
Please contact our sales team at 716.826.4666 for more information on how we can bring you the most cost-effective solution.

Chromium Overlay Plate is intended for extreme abrasion, corrosion, and impact applications. The chromium carbide wear surface is a ceramic compound that is welded to a mild steel substrate. This provides a very resistant surface that will not separate. The primary purpose of the overlay is to protect the surface it is welded to from damaging wear and tear.
Common uses include:

• Chute liners
• Hopper liners
• Wear liners for dozers and buckets

This bimetallic plate (meaning two types of metals) consists of a mild steel base plate overlaid with chromium carbide. Typically, a ceramic compound formed of 30% chrome (chromium) and 5% carbon, chromium carbide that metallurgically bonds to the steel’s, forming a protective and durable surface that will not separate from the base metal.

Chromium carbide overlay steel plate is extremely hard, resistant to both wear and impact, and withstands high temperatures. As a result, chromium carbide plate is ideal for extreme wear applications, high temperature environments, and situations where corrosive problems exist. Chromium carbide overlaid plating also offers a high level of impact resistance.

Since it is composed of a combination of high chrome and high carbon, chromium carbide steel plate achieves unparalleled hardness. When the two metals join forces, they form chromium carbide crystals that reach 600 BHN on the Brinell hardness scale. That’s five times the hardness of unplated mild steel.

Urethane can solve your problems of wear by abrasion under wet conditions. It is not used under conditions of impact or sharp material. Widely used to protect surfaces that suffer extreme abrasion (not impact), typically in wet applications.

Eliminates sticking problems in hoppers, sand screw transporters, concrete mixers, silos, feeding and transport of material areas.

Urethane sheets are available in thickness of ½” – 4”. They are available in sizes 48” x 96” or 48” x 120”. They can also be cut to your specific size requirements. Available in hardness 55 – 90A.

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UHMW high quality sheets promote the flow of material. With a low friction coefficient it is best used when the friction coefficient is of greater importance than wear and in applications where there is stickiness. Additionally, it provides protection to your equipment. UHMW is available in 65D hardness that is equivalent to 110A hardness.The UHMW virgin version offers better resistance to impact, while the recycled version offers a lower cost option for applications that are not too severe.

Available in sheets ¼” – 4” thick and 48” x 120”, or cut to your specific needs.

Urethane classifier shoes can be used for cover de-watering screws, as replacement wear parts on classifiers, and screw conveyors in OEM equipment. Classifier shoes protect metal surfaces and control many of the wear problems common to bulk aggregate handlers that turn and wash moving stone. Urethane classifier shoes are wear and corrosion resistant, lightweight, and easy to install.

They come in different styles and sizes. They can either have a metal backing or metal plates for welding. Classifier shoes can be impregnated with ceramic beads for greater wear protection or fortified with metal inserts that help secure fastening.

The right tension rails ensure proper tensioning and installation of your screens and prolong your screens’ life. An adequate tension rail matches the exact length of your screen and ensembles perfectly with your screen’s hook.

Our tension rails are available in many profiles and lengths for a perfect fit to all screener types, brands and sizes, every time. We can even customize the hole pattern on each tension rail. Buffalo Wire’s tension rails are made from AR plate and manufactured to customers’ specifications, which assure the correct installation of your screens and prolong the screens’ life. Tension rails are also available in urethane and rubber coated to dramatically extend their life.

Pins and wedges mounting assembly are used on a vibrating screen’s deck to provide secure locking of the screen panels while permitting rapid assembly and disassembly of the assembled components. The pin is slotted for receipt of the wedge and the wedge has an enlarged head which is of a greater width than the pin’s slot.

Pins and wedges are a common tensioning method used on vibrating screen decks that permits rapid screen changes compared to carriage bolts.

In abrasive applications such as mining, the head of the wedge and the pin are preferably covered with inexpensive, replaceable caps of an abrasion resistant material such as polyurethane, polypropylene or neoprene.

Our heavy hex nuts have a plated finish and USS thread [class 28 thread fit]. Nuts are available in 1/2″, 5/8″, and 3/4″ sizes.

Our shaker screen bolts are threaded to the head and manufactured from grade #8 carbon steel. They are double heat treated to prevent stretching or breaking. Bolts are plated and available in 1/2″, 5/8″, and 3/4″ diameter in various lengths.

J” bolts hold the screen cloth to the deck frame.

Manufactured from 2A-36 steel, these bolts ship with nuts. Formed with a 1-1/4″ hook at 63″, “J” bolts are available in several lengths with both ‘1/2″ and 5/8″ diameters.

Channel Rubber absorbs the shock of impact during sizing operations. Our rubber resists cuts and tears and is weather resistant. Long legs help keep the Crown Bar Rubber from twisting out of position during operation. Our heavy-duty rubber is extra thick on top – the point of maximum wear – to provide longer wear life for your screen cloth.

Made of a high quality 60 Shore A rubber, this rubber is mounted on the support bars of screens. The capping rubber protects the support bar and also protects the underside of the screen cloth from wear. It is available in several different widths and heights to suit the different support bars on the market. Channel Rubber helps to keep the screens properly tensioned and prevents metal with metal friction that causes wear and tear.

Buffalo Wire Works offers a variety of hooks to serve your unique needs. Proper screen size and tensioning is critical for the perfect fit. All of our hooks fit OEM machines as well as customer specific designs. Depending on the wire diameter of your screen, our knowledgeable sales team will select the best hook to optimize your screen life.
For more information about our hooks and other products contact us at [email protected] or call us at 716.826.4666