Rods Spacers Bushings
Southwest Mill Supply produces the cleanest, highest-quality mill rods for the most demanding applications. Our rods are specially designed to work with the hardest available hammers in the industry.
Rods can be threaded, grooved, slotted, drilled, or plain. SMS carries locking collars, spacers, lock straps, cotter pins, and our Patented E-Stepped Bushing System. The E-Stepped Bushing system is uniquely designed to address both rod grooving and hole elongation. This system, with wear resistant bushings, is offered with a guarantee.
E-Stepped Spacer
With the push for longer wear life, while eliminating hole elongation and rod grooving, Southwest Mill Supply has introduced our latest innovation. The patented E-Stepped Spacer System, is the result of collaboration between SMS and our partners. Advantages to the system include:
Decreases downtime, maintenance intervals and overall cost of operations
Eliminates hole elongation and rod grooving
Utilize rods multiple times
Increased wear life
Prevents mill vibration during start-up and coast down
Ease of installation reduces install time
Download a PDF of an E-Stepped Spacer System installation example