Mining

The Mining industry brings lots of bolting challenges with its need to drill into very solid materials to extract minerals and precious metals. The machinery to do this work is very heavy duty and creates lots of dynamic loads as well as constant vibrations.

The remote locations of these operations makes the thought of a bolt failure from breakage or working loose unthinkable when this could lead to down time in the mine. It is for this reason that WL Series wedge locking washers are used extensively on these machines in areas where critical bolted joints are subjected to these types of loads.

The vehicles driving into and out of the mines are subject to heavy vibrations just from the terrain they have to travel over so many of the bolted joints holding accessories to the vehicles are secured with wedge lock washers.