Bristle Brushes
Metal Strip Producers FAST FACTS That Save Time & Money
For Metal Strip Producers Looking to Optimize the Surface Cleanliness in Their Metal Strip Cleaning Section Process Wide-face Abrasive and Non-Abrasive Bristle Brushes in Your Cleaning Section With both abrasive and non-abrasive Bristle Brushes, increasing the stiffness of the brush improves efficiency in your alkali and rinse sections, because [...]
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Bristle Brush Pro Tip #2 The Spaghetti Effect
Be aware of the process taking place inside your machine. In our first bristle brush pro-tip, we demonstrated the importance of making sure to engage the tip of a bristle brush with a strip surface. This content piggybacks on the concept of bristle tip engagement and will bring you value from understanding how to get […]
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METAL SURFACE SCALE CLEANING BRUSHES
The suitability of the brush roll is measured by cleaning capacity and their lifetime, but also for the cost per kilometer of cleaned metallic sheet and the risk of collapse and damage before the end of the expected long-lasting life: A brush that cleans a lot but does not last is not useful. A long-lasting […]
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GETTING STRIP CLEAN-BRISTLE BRUSH
The reason your strip isn’t clean. (You don’t need more pressure.) Did you ever take a look at your finished metal strip surface and throw your hands up because you can’t figure out why it’s not getting all the dirt, smut, and iron fines off the surface? You probably thought there was something wrong with […]
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REPLACING SCRUBBER BRUSHES
How to replace your metal strip surface cleaning section scrubber brushes, without damaging them. Well, APT actually has figured out a way, but many metal strip and coil producing foundries still change the large heavy-duty industrial scrubber brushes the old way, which puts them at risk for bending the shaft or damaging the bearing […]
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Re-think Brushing – Brush Scrubbers and Satin Finishing
CLEANING SECTION BRUSH SCRUBBERS AND SURFACE CLEANING & FINISHING This is a subject that many users would like to forget, rather than be reminded of! Having built cleaning section equipment for over 60 years, we have looked at many process lines and listened to scrubber issues from maintenance, operations, and quality team members and have […]
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APT MULTI-FIL BRUSHES LAST LONGER CLEANING AND FINISHING
FOR FLAT METAL STRIP, COIL, SHEET APPLICATIONS Today’s customers want to increase cleaning and line speed in existing (or new!) cleaning equipment. And the problem is conventional cleaning sections/lines have mechanical limitations. Current line configurations don’t have free space to add new degreasing, electrolytic or brushing units, and line [...]
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Bristle Scrubber Brush – Pro Tip
Adjust the brush you have, for what it is capable of doing. This blog post is designed to give you value and tips for optimizing your current metal strip cleaning process, without a need to purchase anything. Simply adjust what you have. Let me take you to your brush scrubber/brush machine. You will find this […]
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BRISTLE SCRUBBER BRUSHES IN A PACKET SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Serval segments cover the width of your brush face specification. This is designed to reduce the number of steps in refurbishing a brush and keeping the brush in-house or at your local machine shop of your liking. This reduced the distance these heavy brush shafts go on and the time it takes to […]
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BRISTLE SCRUBBER BRUSHES
Do You Know About the Spaghetti Effect? Let’s play a game. I’m going to describe some aggravating problems that result on the line, and you’re going to tell me what’s causing the problem. Ready? Here we go: The tips of your bristle brush don’t engage with the metal surface. Instead of hitting the […]
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