Solve Your Broken Screen Media Headaches

Solve Your Broken Screen Media Headaches With Ty-Max

By Steve Fair, Tyler Engineered Media Manager, Haver & Boecker Niagara

So, you’re driving past your pile of 1-inch (25-millimeters) minus in your quarry when you notice that 2-inch (50-millimeters) stones are rolling down on top of it.

Oh no!

We’ve blown a screen on the top deck of our secondary machine. How long has it been broken? Have we contaminated the entire pile? Do we have to rescreen the entire thing?

You’ve probably been there and know that feeling. It’s normally the lead screen that breaks because of the impact. There is a feedbox on the machine, but rarely does the box catch everything. A lot of that impact directly hits the lead woven wire screen, causing it to break or wear out faster than the following screens. It’s a screen section that probably cost you a few hundred dollars, but it could cost thousands of dollars in downtime and the potential need to rescreen your product if you don’t change something.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a screen section that would give you MAXimum wear life on the impact section on the top deck? Wouldn’t it be great if you got MAXimum productivity from that impact section? Wouldn’t it be great if you got MAXimum dollar value from that section?

We have that section. It’s called Ty-Max. Ty-Max offers the wear life of a polyurethane panel in a hooked section. It installs just like woven wire cloth so there is absolutely no deck conversion required. You are going to get 7 to 9 times the wear life that you were getting from your wire cloth —if you do the math, you might find it lasts your entire season!

Ty-Max can handle wet applications as well as dry applications. The openings are tapered, so if the particle can get in the hole, it can get out of the hole. That means no pegging!

Now, let’s talk noise. Ty-Max sections significantly reduce the noise caused by these heavy applications. Rock hitting polyurethane is a lot quieter than rock hitting wire screens.

I’m not going to tell you to install Ty-Max until its tight — whatever tight means — I’m going to tell you to install it to 70 foot-pounds. Always 70 foot-pounds. Easy for anybody!

Picture this: It’s spring and you are getting ready for your spring start-up. You and your co-worker are up on that machine and you have just installed a section of Ty-Max at the feed end. You say to your co-worker, “That’s it, we are done.” Your co-worker asks how long that section will last. You say that it’s good to go for the season and that you will meet them at the same spot at the same time next year to change the section.

Isn’t that the kind of picture you would like to be working in?

Learn more about our signature Ty-Max screen media here or email info@haverniagara.com.