Crack Repair of A Press Frame-3500 Ton Capacity | RA Power Solutions: 44 Years Of Experience in Meta

RA Power Solutions was approached by a leading automobile manufacturing company based in North India to execute the repair of a damaged main frame body of 3500 Ton Press, supplied, installed, and maintained by a renowned Japanese company. RA Power Solutions team of engineers visited the plant during the shutdown and following was observed.

• The main frame of the 3500 Ton Press, which developed crack was the backbone of the plant as the complete body of the vehicles including doors/bonnet etc were formed on the press.
• The company was asked to disassemble all the parts, adjacent to the area where the crack was developed.
• The crack area of the press was thoroughly cleaned. Paint and red oxide were completely removed by the chemicals.
• The hardness test of the crack area of the press was undertaken.
• The MPI test was done on the crack area where a crack having a horizontal profile measuring 400 MM was observed.
• The crack was through the complete width of the frame plate having thickness of 40 MM.

All the technical parameters including load characteristics of 3500 Ton Press were studied by the RA Power Solutions engineers and it was decided to go ahead with the repair of crack by metal stitching and metal locking process.