Workshop Tools & Equipment - Truck & Bus ProductFocus


Issue 153 9 June 2011

Gone are the times when specialist or heavy-duty workshop tasks relied on half a day's brute force to complete; these days, there's an easier solution for everything. Task-specific workshop tools can often help to make carrying out repairs a far easier, safer and less time-consuming affair. For more on the items below, click on the company logo or image.

Loadstar Hydraulic Press Frame Kit –
20 tonnes capacity

Ideal for the removal of suspension pins and bushes on a wide variety of HGV & PSV applications

Can be used either on or off the vehicle,
dependant on access

Special versions also available for :-

Optare Buses & Coaches
MAN 12.220/12.240 & 14.220/14.240 Bus Chassis

Standard kit consists of : Hydraulic Pump / 20tonne Hydraulic Push Cylinder / Portable Press Frame / Selection of Push Pins from 18mm – 50mm diameter

Part of the Sykes-Pickavant Loadstar Heavy Duty Puller range – can be converted for Heavy Duty Pulling with the addition of optional Puller components.

The New Standard in Rolling Road technology

Stoneridge offers a range of tachographs, calibration and test equipment to meet the needs of every Tachograph Workshop. Now we have produced a Rolling Road System that sets new standards in technology and accuracy.

Following an exhaustive review and revision of software and hardware components, and combined with our knowledge and expertise, the 9500 Series Rolling Road provides you with the highest performance levels in quality, reliability and durability.

Compatible for use with all Analogue and Digital tachographs
Floor-mounted console
Flush floor fitted rollers
Refined software and innovative hardware components
Design enables speeds up to 100km/h
High quality encapsulated sensors
Integrated photoelectric cell
Added safety features
Low noise

Are Solvents giving you a headache?

Rozone Smartwasher parts cleaner

There is an increased demand for cleaning and pollution control innovative technologies that have long term benefits for employees and the wider environment. Controlling operating costs and improving efficiency for fleets is taken as read.

Workshop managers who have invested in Rozone`s Smartwasher parts cleaner have seen those benefits on their operation. An alternative to solvent parts cleaners, the Rozone Smartwasher eliminates harmful vapours, reduces risks, waste disposal costs and is more friendly to the user and the environment.

The self-recycling Smartwasher with its unique bioremediation technology uses solvent free, non hazardous, non flammable degreasing solution and is even available as a mobile unit.

Work smarter, not harder to increase your workshop performance Hundreds of your colleagues have proven Smartwasher works!

QUALITY AIR HYDRAULIC JACKS

Vehicle lifting specialist Stertil Koni has been appointed as the exclusive UK distributor for the Pasquin range of manually- operated, air-hydraulic lifting jacks.

The Pasquin range was introduced in 1963 and has been steadily developed and extended to offer proven, cost-effective solutions to the problems associated with lifting all types of trucks, buses, heavy plant and aircraft.

Depending on the model, Pasquin jacks incorporate up to five precision-engineered lifting cylinders manufactured from special high grade steel to offer outstanding performance and reliability.

There is a lifting jack in the range for almost every need – variations include length of handle and body, maximum and minimum lifting heights and maximum and minimum lifting capacities.

A minimum of moving parts, coupled with exceptionally high quality engineering, guarantee an extended working life over many years.

Don't take chances -
correctly identify that thread

The new Gunson Thread Gauge set (part no: 77106) enables identification of a large range of threads on bolts, set screws pipes and spark plugs. The gauges are manufactured from aluminium so they won't damage fine threads and allow quick identification of bolt thread diameter, thread pitch or threads per inch.
Probably the most useful is the metric gauge, measuring thread sizes 2.5mm right up to 22mm and pitch of 0.45mm to 2.5mm. The pipe thread gauge measures sizes 1/16" to 1/2" with 14 tpi (threads per inch) to 27 tpi, and spark plug thread sizes 10, 12, 14 and 18mm.
Also included are two USS standard gauges which encompass SAE, UNC, and UNF standards, the smaller measuring sizes #5 to 3/8" with tpi from 16 up to 44 and the larger gauge measuring 1/4" to 3/4" and tpi of 10 to 28.

Expect to pay just £7.50 and at that price, a useful addition to any toolbox and gives credibility when visiting the engineers' supplies shop!

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