Everpads Technology: The Most Efficient Asphalt-Cutting Solution on the Market - Gen-E Road Milling Teeth
18. Jul. 2024Gen-E Milling Teeth are designed for those seeking longevity and superior milling performance. These teeth were created to address the dissatisfaction with current market options, offering contractors a cost-effective milling solution without compromising on Cold Milling Machine performance.
Gen-E Milling Teeth provide a 30% longer lifespan compared to upper-middle-grade teeth on the market, delivering the highest-quality milling results. For example, Gen-E T5, the entry-level milling teeth of Everpads, are designed to achieve a milling volume of an average of 12,000 square meters (1,291,669 square feet).
*In medium-hardness, 2-meter milling drums, 50mm depth.
In this blog, we will showcase the features of Gen-E Milling Teeth and explain how these features effectively solve the challenges faced by contractors, delivering the value that Gen-E parts promise.
This blog is ideal for contractors seeking to:
- Replace current milling teeth with a better option.
- Maximize asphalt milling efficiency.
- Understand why high-quality teeth are difficult for other brands to produce.
Table of Contents:
1. Everpads' Solution in Asphalt Milling Teeth: How Gen-E Milling Teeth Tackle the Challenges
2. How Gen-E Milling Teeth Address the Challenges
3. Comparative Analysis of Milling Teeth Performance: Everpads vs. Others
4. Conclusion: Taking the Next Steps
I. Everpads' Solution in Asphalt Milling Teeth: How Gen-E Milling Teeth Tackle the Challenges
Milling operations face numerous challenges, particularly in the performance of asphalt milling teeth. If you haven't explored these challenges, please read our comprehensive blog: How to Assess Milling Teeth in the Market.
Overview of Basic Consideration Indicators to Compare Asphalt Milling Teeth
Milling teeth can be assessed based on six key attributes:
Expected Lifespan
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Tip Durability: The durability of the carbide tips is the most critical factor affecting the tool life, lifespan, and effectiveness of milling teeth. High-quality, durable tips ensure a longer service life and sustained cutting performance, reducing the frequency of replacements and downtime.
Premature Failure Resistance
- Deforming Resistance: The ability to resist deformation under operational stress is essential for maintaining the functionality and shape of the milling teeth.
- Rust Resistance: Rust on the sleeve and steel body can cause materials to get stuck in the rotation space, leading to operational inefficiencies. Ensuring rust resistance helps maintain smooth operation and prolongs the life of the teeth.
Operation Performance
- Rotation Rate: Refers to the speed and efficiency at which the milling teeth rotate as they contact the surface material. A higher rotation rate helps distribute wear evenly across the teeth, enhancing cutting efficiency.
- Cutting Force Retention: Maintaining strong cutting force is crucial for the effective grinding of tough materials, ensuring consistent performance throughout the operation.
These indicators influence the expected lifespan, premature failure resistance, and operational performance of milling teeth in asphalt milling operations.
II. How Gen-E Milling Teeth Address the Challenges
Operation Performance
#1 Rotation Rate:
Everpads Solution
• D-Surface Treatment: Everpads adopts D-treatment, which only one OEM brand and we adopt it due to its high cost, on the steel body and sleeve. This treatment reduces friction and ensures high rotation smoothness of the teeth.
• Designed Taper Production Solution: The integrated mold forging of the steel body and wear plate results in a perfectly matched taper at the contact points, giving the milling teeth exceptional self-centering capabilities.
• Automatic Precise Robot Tip Setting: Ensures a consistently precisely centered tip, providing the best physical condition for rotation.
• Optimal Steel Body Shape: The shape has been optimized through tested special wave designs that provide the best conditions for self-rotation.
• Patent Wear Plate Shape: The patented waved shape design of the wear plate allows soil to pass through efficiently, enhancing the rotational capability by interacting with the angles and grooves.
Why Others Struggle
• Proper Space Setting and Smoothness: Achieving a high rotation rate requires precise space setting and smoothness between the shank of the steel body and the sleeve, which many manufacturers find difficult to achieve.
• Precise Production and High-Cost Surface Treatment: These requirements necessitate exacting production standards and costly surface treatments, which many manufacturers are unwilling or unable to perform.
• Centered Tip and Self-Centered Ability: Ensuring a precisely centered tip and a self-centering steel body to the tool holder requires sophisticated engineering and manufacturing capabilities, which many manufacturers lack.
#2 Cutting Force Retention:
Everpads Solutions
• High-Quality Raw Tungsten Material: We use German tungsten carbide powder with uniform granularity, resulting in stable and uniformly crystallized end products.
• Consistent Advanced Production Process: Our tungsten carbide products feature large, uniform 20-micron crystals, providing exceptional impact resistance and toughness while maintaining a hardness of 90-95 HRC. These attributes are consistently achieved through our advanced production methods.
• Enhanced Steel Body Property and Structure: Our patented steel body design maximizes strength and minimizes the possibility of breakage when unexpectedly crushing hard objects.
Why Others Struggle
• Consistent Cutting Force: Maintaining consistent cutting force requires advanced material technology and precision manufacturing, which many manufacturers lack.
• Resistance to Wear and Deformation: Achieving the right balance of hardness and elasticity to resist wear and deformation demands tungsten carbide with uniform crystals, a challenging requirement.
• High-Quality Materials: The need for high-quality, uniform raw tungsten materials is costly, and many manufacturers are reluctant to invest in these expensive resources.
Expected Lifespan
#3 Tip Durability:
Everpads Solution:
• High-Quality Raw Tungsten Material: We use German tungsten carbide powder with uniform granularity, resulting in stable and uniformly crystallized end products.
• Consistent Advanced Production Process: Our tungsten carbide products feature large, uniform 20-micron crystals, providing exceptional impact resistance and toughness while maintaining a hardness of 90-95 HRC. These attributes are consistently achieved through our advanced production methods.
Why Others Struggle:
• Significant Complexity and Cost: Delivering these features involves substantial complexity and expense.
• High-Quality, Wear-Resistant Materials: Enhancing tip durability requires expensive, high-quality, wear-resistant materials and advanced manufacturing capabilities.
• Uniformity in Material Quality: Achieving consistent performance and durability demands stringent quality control, which many manufacturers lack.
• Balancing Hardness and Toughness: Preventing chipping or cracking requires sophisticated engineering to balance hardness and toughness.
Premature Failure Resistance
#4 Deforming Resistance:
Everpads' Solution
• Unique Secret Alloy Compound for Steel Body from Taiwan: Our unique alloy ensures that the rotational capability of the steel body does not diminish over its lifecycle.
• Customized Alloy for Sleeve from Japan: Combined with advanced heat treatment methods, this ensures that the sleeve never deforms.
• Exclusive Alloy for Wear Plate from Japan: Our wear plates are made from an exclusive Japanese wear-resistant alloy steel, ensuring superior durability.
• Specific Heat Treatment for Each Component: We use the most suitable heat treatment methods for each component, enhancing structural stability and performance.
Why Others Struggle
• Extreme Forces and Conditions: Milling teeth face extreme forces and varying environmental conditions, making deforming resistance hard to achieve. Other brands' materials and designs often can't withstand these stresses.
• Robust Material Needs: High-quality, robust materials are essential but costly and complex to source and use, which many manufacturers avoid.
• Controlled Heat Treatment: Achieving structural stability requires meticulous heat treatment and sophisticated engineering, which many manufacturers lack.
• High Costs: The expensive processes and materials needed for top-quality milling teeth lead many manufacturers to cut corners to keep production costs down.
#5 Rust Resistance:Everpads Solution
• D-Surface Treatment: Everpads adopts D-treatment on the steel body and sleeve. This advanced and costly treatment, used only by one OEM brand and Everpads, nearly eliminates rust issues and ensures long-term durability.
Why Others Struggle
• Black Oxide Use: Most manufacturers use Black Oxide for rust prevention because it is low-cost.
• Ineffectiveness of Black Oxide: This method is less effective at preventing rust and ensuring long-term durability.
• Investment Challenges: Investing in more effective rust prevention methods is costly, and many manufacturers are reluctant to incur these higher expenses.
#6 Additional Value Gen-E Milling Teeth Provide:
• Increase Tool Holder Service Life: Everpads' patented wear plates, featuring a larger diameter of 48mm compared to others on the market, provide better protection to the tool holders.
III. Comparative Analysis of Milling Teeth Performance: Everpads vs. Others
To provide a clear perspective on the superiority of Everpads' Gen-E Milling Teeth, let's compare their performance with other brands available in the market.
IV. Conclusion: Taking the Next Steps
Investing in high-quality milling teeth, such as Everpads' Gen-E Milling Teeth, is crucial for contractors who want to maximize their asphalt milling efficiency, reduce unexpected downtimes, and lower long-term costs by minimizing replacements. The superior design and materials used in Gen-E Milling Teeth provide exceptional durability, cutting performance, and resistance to wear and deformation. By choosing Gen-E Milling Teeth, contractors can ensure consistent performance, extended lifespan, and reliable protection for their milling equipment.
If you're ready to enhance your milling operations with the best-in-class Gen-E Milling Teeth, contact Everpads today. Our team is ready to provide you with more details and help you make the best decision for your milling needs. Share this blog post with your network to spread the word about these revolutionary products. Together, we can pave the way for more efficient and cost-effective milling technology.
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