Light, portable, and highly efficient, the Pandrol Lightweight Weld Shear is designed to make it easier to remove excess weld metal. With self-locking adjustable hold downs, it’s easy to get a clean safe cut every time. An additional half inch of clearance between blades ensures easy placement over wide gap welds. The spring-centred flow control valve allows safe and precision-timed shearing of aluminothermic welds.
Designed for aluminothermic weld finishing, this tool provides safe, precision shearing without damaging the rail. Its compact build and adjustable rollers make it adaptable to all standard rail profiles and easy to transport.
The hydraulic shearing machine is much safer to use than the traditional hammer and chisel method of reducing excess metal, which is hard work and exposes workers to projecting metal.
The machine-based process eliminates the risk of damaging the rail.
A simple and intuitive control system allows the operator to smoothly activate the shear and retract functions. The hydraulic control is spring-centred, ensuring precise timing for each cut while maintaining a high level of safety during use.
The lightweight design of the weld shear makes it easily
transportable – also promoting safe lifting practices.
Carrying this weld shear is easy thanks to its lightweight design, weighing only 98lbs.
Equipped with Pandrol full cast tipped shear blades ready for going to work. Replacement shear blades are readily available and easily changed.
During the process, the shear is held to the rail with bearing rollers that are fully adjustable to fit the industry’s varying rail sizes.
The in-built shield offers total protection for the fittings and hoses.
The PLA Evo is the latest optimised welding process, designed to be easy to use, improve performance and be fully compatible with the Pandrol aluminothermic welding product range.
The HFP 36V is a battery-powered and fully automated preheater designed for easier and more reliable operation. Its ignition, timing, and stop functions require no manual interference or flame adjustment, making it a highly efficient tool.
i+seal moulds are Pandrol’s newest aluminothermic welding innovation that streamlines the welding process.
HWR is suitable for repairing railhead defects between 25mm and 90mm wide and 25mm deep (depending on the rail profile), it can be used on both the parent rail and on electric flash butt welds, which often suffer from squats. It is also suitable for transversal defects, shelling and corner gauge. The aluminothermic weld process is carried out using specially designed moulds.
Pandrol provide world-leading aluminothermic welding solutions for customers worldwide.
The process involves casting molten steel (produced through the reaction of iron oxide and aluminium) at a temperature exceeding 3,500 ˚F (1,950 °C) into refractory moulds designed to the rail specification.
Pandrol collaborate with port, dockland, and warehouse operators globally in designing and delivering crane rail welding solutions for infrastructure dedicated to handling goods.
Our vignole rail welding processes equip the user to perform new welds as well as wide-gap and head-wash repairs.
Pandrol Connect consists of three modules: a mobile version for welders to record on-site data and for welding controllers to review data, an online monitoring app to review weld information from the office, and an online administration tool to apply settings to local standards.