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From Bone Yard to Functional
The above picture is a dryer disperser unit from a Horner customer. This customer is located in Cloverdale, IN and produces ethanol. This disperser runs at speed and the chunks of product hit it while rotating and blast it into smaller particles. The unit was bent and unable to be used in production. The customer had the disperser out in their bone yard for years and one day asked Todd Cochran, Sales , if Horner could save the unit.
The unit was transported to the Horner Machine Shop to be dismantled and evaluated for repair. The customer provided the price of a new unit and Darrell Cothron quoted the rebuild for 20% less than the cost of new and we were awarded the job. The machine shop dismantled, repaired the (17) plates, made a new shaft and assembled the unit. Horner turned a scrap item into a functional piece of equipment for our customer. So look through your scrap yard- what can we fix for you?
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