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Air system for auto shredders

The “F5” is a custom, compact shredder air system designed to fit downstream in automobile shredder applications with little or no modifications to the existing not system. The system is primarily buying adesigned for mid-size to smaller shredder systems. By using high velocity air separation, it Axial Pole avoids the use of a standard Z-box, which requires foundation and layout changes, NES, and fits cleanly between the magnet stand and picking station. “Most recently, we designed and installed this type of system for an existing 80104 with 4,000 hp,” said company president Bill Tigner. Also recently introduced by US Shredder is a new shredder hammer for automobile shredder applications. The new hammer is a “differentially hardened hammer” and is available for all shredder models and sizes. Unlike a traditional alloy hammer which has the same hardness throughout the hammer, these differentially hardened hammers are softer around the pinhole area, which saves life on the hammer pin.