CounterAct Electronic rust protection on heavy mining equipment"

Clough Engineering Group,

Telfer Mining (1999)

We first installed a CounterAct "electronic rust protection" system in a Wagner ST 7.5 loader about 2 years ago. The machine left this site some 2 months later and I lost sight of it until January of this year. We had used a grinder to polish an area under a wheel arch to monitor the success or otherwise of the system.

I was pleased to see that the unpainted patch was still free from rust. As we are in the planning stages of replacing our fleet we are including CounterAct "electronic rust protection" on each new machine. In fact we have just purchased an Elphinstone R1700 to which we have fitted the system.

The cost of the system is negligible compared to our corrosion problems, even in the first few months of a machine's service life."

S.T. Branch, Mechanical Superintendent,

Clough Engineering Group, Telfer Mining,

Western Australia