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Quickduster: Underground Mining EquipmentStone dusting system

Our Alminco Quickduster represents one our finest heritage product offerings. Our customers describe the Alminco Quickduster as a versatile solution, featuring adaptations to take advantage of underground equipment such as loaders, mine vehicles and longwall chock carriers.

Alminco Quickduster Benefits
Hydraulic Operation: Alminco Quickduster unit operates off the vehicles hydraulics. Stone dust is fed into the hydraulic spinner motors via the flight bar conveyor. Alminco’s Quickduster spinner motors are utilised to throw the dust onto the rib, roof and floor.
Economic: Compare more than favourably on price to other stone dusting systems.
Smooth Operation: Clogging and bonding are problems of the past, our Alminco Quickduster is a leading solution offering an efficient discharge of dust at a great price.
Stone dust (calcium carbonate) is fed into hydraulic spinner motors via the flight bar conveyor situated at the bottom of the hopper. The spinner motors are used to throw the dust onto the roof, rib and floor of the roadway as the prime mover reverses up the roadway, against the flow of ventilation.

Hydraulic Requirements
  Hydraulic Circuit Setup*
Capacity Series   Parallel  
  Metric Imperial Metric Imperial
1.5 Tonne 68 Lpm 18 gpm 98 Lpm 26 Lpm
4 Tonne 75 Lpm 20gpm 106 gpm 28 gpm

Note: Figures quoted are @ 103 bar pressure (1500psi)

  • Spinner motors can be connected in series so that they receive oil one after the other or in parallel so that they receive oil simultaneously.