Single-End Vertical Demounting/Mounting Presses

300-400-600 Ton Capacities

For the shop with relatively low volume of wheel set repair and maintenance.  All work enters and leaves from one side, and wheel sets are rotated end-for-end to demount both wheels.  Can be equipped for straight-through, semi-automatic production mounting.  Fully equipped with ram cap adapters, spacers, and yoke adapters to handle all standard A.A.R. wheel and axles sizes.

 

Double-End Vertical Demounting/Mounting Presses

300-400-600 Ton Capacities

Designed for the shop with higher volume production of wheel sets, but limited floor space.  Work enters and leaves from one side.  With rams on both ends, demounting or mounting of both wheels is accomplished without removing and rotating axle end-for-end.  Equipped with two recording gauges and accessories to handle all standard A.A.R. wheel and axle sizes.

 

Double-End Horizontal Demounting/Mounting Presses

300-400-600 Ton Capacities

The high-volume production and/or repair press for the shop designed for one direction of work flow.  Wheel sets flow through the press, entering from one side, leaving from the other side.  Often installed with straight-through tracks.  With rams on both ends, wheels can be demounted or mounted without changing wheel set position.  Fully equipped with two recording gauges and accessories to handle all standard A.A.R. wheel and axles sizes.

 

Production Mounting Presses

200-300 Ton Capacities

A single cylinder press built for fast, production line assembly of new wheels and axles, or the high-volume repair shop where another press is used for demounting only, and this press for mounting.  Work enters one side, rolls out the other side on tracks at floor level.  Fully equipped to handle all standard A.A.R wheel and axle sizes.

Consider these features when you select a wheel press:

1. Single-end presses require rotating of wheel and axle sets from end-to-end to demount both wheels.  With double-end presses, wheel and axle sets are rolled into the press to working position only once, and hydraulic rams on both ends mount or demount without changing axle position.

2. All GFP/Rodgers wheel presses are designed to be pit-mounted to eliminate the need of overhead cranes when placing wheel sets in the press.  Wheels are easily positioned in the press at floor level, then raised or lowered to precise working height by hydraulic elevating dollies.

3. GFP/Rodgers wheel presses remove wheels by pressing on the wheel hubs, not the rims.  This eliminates the possibility of dangerous stress and warping of the wheels.  An exception to this is the removal of diesel wheels without removing drive gears.  In this case, the diesel wheel is of heavier construction, not as susceptible to warping, and can be removed by pressure on the rim.

4. Main cylinders of a GFP/Rodgers wheel press can be fully extended at full pressure without damage, and do not require a stroke limiting device.  They are bolted to the cylinder head members in a manner which assures proper alignment at all times, yet they can be removed for service if ever required.  GFP/Rodgers designs and builds press cylinders for such outstanding service they are often used in rebuilding other makes of presses!

5. Head and abutment members, yokes and tension bars, the main structural members of a GFP/Rodgers Press, are considerably lighter by weight than those of some other presses, yet they have a tensile strength that is more than adequate for rated capacity of the press.  A lesser but more important side benefit of a lighter GFP/Rodgers press is the significant lowering of shipping costs, a factor to be considered in total initial cost.

6. All GFP/Rodgers wheel presses are priced and delivered complete with cylinders, power unit, remote power control console, recording gauges for mounting presses, and piping and wiring from power unit to press and control console.

7. All GFP/Rodgers wheel presses are completely assembled and tested at the factory prior to shipment.

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