Aluminum Quick Clean Off Sleeve

From the other side of going down the hill, and there you go—yep, that’s why we got an aluminum sleeve. If we get sorted—and there’s a perfect demonstration of why you need the aluminum sleeve—a nice hit like that off some rocks might crack a PVC one. So that’s one of the reasons we made this thing. It just makes your hanging magnet a lot more of a durable component of your machine or system, rather than something you always have to worry about cracking. It’s a nice thick aluminum with good bushing, so it won’t crush in on itself when you get it loaded full of debris, and just a lot of benefits over the PVC.

Watch, you hit the ground again. There you go. See, it’s scraping down, so this will be more protected on the Erebus because it has the outriggers, and so it’s got something central to kick off the ground rather than the sleeve. But, you know, that’s why we got the sleeve—to be able to hit things.

So after hitting all those rocks there, I just cleaned the sleeve off completely. It was covered in mud just to see if there’s any damage. So we hit them pretty good. We hit them about four times going up and down, so eight times total, and the only damage to be seen is there’s a couple little nicks out of the aluminum here. There are some small abrasion marks here, which hopefully you can see on camera, but there’s just little tiny nicks all over. And on the front where it actually impacted, there’s pretty much nothing at all. So there are some scratches there going down the middle; that would have been where it hit on the edge and then just dragged across.

But because there’s nothing holding this magnet down—it’s just chains—it can go up, so once you hit something, it just comes up and over, and you don’t have to worry about punching through the aluminum because it’ll just lift the sweeper before it goes through the aluminum in most cases, unless you hit a piece of tungsten or something.

But, yeah, that’s the view of the sleeve after hitting the rocks and running through the yard a couple of times with all the nails on it. Nails haven’t left any marks that are notable. The only real notable marks are just kind of on this edge here—just those little nicks out of the edge and those scratches. So, yeah, that’s the aluminum sleeve. If you had a PVC one, you’d probably be ordering a new one from us, so consider it.

All right, here’s a durability test for the new aluminum sleeve that fits our new hanging magnetics. So that’s a Massey 265, and we’re going to back over it to see what it does to the —big hit. It hit hard—got to go.

All right, here we go, take two. There you go, up and over. Let’s see if we got any damage on that thing. So we just ran this new magnet over with the new aluminum sleeve. We ran it over with a 7,000 lb tractor, right on the front wheels, where there’s a lot of weight from the engine and everything. So this aluminum sleeve fits on all of our hanging magnets that are the 4-1/2 by 4-1/2 size.

So, after running it over with the tractor, it should still work fine. It’s got the plastic bushings in the corner to prevent friction from aluminum on aluminum, and if we did dent anything, there might be a small amount of aluminum, like, touching the housing, but it should still be riding on those plastic bushings, so it’ll come off easy.

So we’ll see. This one’s the new NYX magnet, so to take it off, just got to pull the linchpin out, see the bushing, then the wheel, and then there’s a latch on either side that holds the sleeve on—this comes with all sides already done. Hopefully, the audio is okay, and we’ll see if we can still pull it off after running it over with a 7,000 lb tractor. Pretty smooth. So there you go—there’s your durability of our new aluminum.