Nothing ruins your day quicker than slicing off a cherished body part while performing conveyor belt maintenance. And it’s easy enough to do when using an old-school utility knife or a rusty ninja sword.
But with the right tools, you can lift, clamp and cut belts faster and easier, while dramatically improving the odds you’ll finish the workday with all your fingers still attached.
The Flexco Power Belt Cutter
For belts that need a good slicing, we recommend the Flexco Power Belt Cutter. It’s designed for all types of belts, even fabric plied belts and those made from tough solid-woven PVC. You can cut rubber belts up to 2 inches and PVC belts up to 360 P.I.W. Choose the model with a cord for use in your shop, or go cordless if you work in the field.
Are you right-handed or left-handed? It doesn’t matter with this tool. You can switch the adjustable handle to the side you prefer. If you’re middle-handed, though, you’re screwed.
And as if all that fabulousness isn’t enough, the sealed ball bearings make it simple to feed your belt into the cutter. And it’s the spring-loaded blade guard that prevents you from choppin’ off anything you’d prefer to not chop off.
The Flex-Lifter Belt Lifter
Speaking of severed appendages, another easy way to spew gore on the jobsite is to lift a belt the wrong way. The Flex-Lifter Belt Lifter is a true life (and finger) saver; it can support belts up to 96 inches wide and upwards of 6000 pounds.
This tool is capable of hoisting all that weight on a variety of terrains, and can be lowered or raised thanks to its sexy pair of extension legs. It also has adjustable wings, which make dealing with troughed or flat topside belts a lot simpler.
Need more perks? The Flex-Lifter is also ridiculously portable and can be carried by hand. It’s a nifty tool all-around, and sure beats using pry bars or an underpaid intern to do the lifting. (Sorry, Steve. We’ll send you that thumb if we find it.)
The TUG HD Belt Clamp
Last but certainly not least is the humble belt clamp. Keeping your belt secure during repairs could mean the difference between getting a concussion and not getting a concussion. If you prefer the latter option, consider adding a few TUG HD Belt Clamps to your tool collection.
Each clamp provides even tensioning across the width of the belt, and accommodate belt thickness of up to 2.25 inches. Their high-grade aluminum and steel construction gives them the oomph to handle six to eight tones of conveyer girth.
To sweeten the deal, the TUG HD clamps also feature portable modular components and third-party tested safety factors that meet or exceed industry standards. And best of all (no, we aren’t letting this go), they won’t slice you open like a fleshy pomegranate under a butter knife.
You only have so many fingers, so talk with your Binkelman rep today about the Flexco Power Belt Cutter, the Flex-Lifter Belt Lifter, and the TUG HD Belt Clamp.