We supply 55 gallon drums and 5 gallon pails of asphalt cut back. Pricing would depend on volume. You may contact me at 800-867-3127.
Mike Lea
Coating Systems & Supply
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One can find asphalt equipment for sale used on Buy My Asphalt, Rb Auction, and Asphalt Kingdom. Other options for purchase of asphalt equipment are Rock and Dirt and Mascus.
You'll typically see steel drum rollers and wheel rollers (9 wheel being the most common). Drum rollers do the more coarse work, while the wheel rollers are the ones which do the finishing.
The price of a drum mic kit depends on various factors like how much the seller wants for it, and where one purchases the drum mic kit. The price can range from $150 to $500.
It weighs 3 Ibs per one square footage of asphalt shingle
Where can one find detailed instructions on the steps involved with Asphalt instalment?
Asphalt is simply a mix of tar and aggregate, so regular asphalt will be pretty rough on most standards. The more one works on the asphalt when it is laid the smoother it will be. For instance one can press it with a roller to make a nice even surface and get any inconsistencies out of the asphalt. However, this will take more time and money that one might not be willing to pay.
Drum brakes I assume? First spin the drum around and take note of how much drage on the drum you have. You should have slight drag but not too much. Now you'll have too look at the drum. There will be a hole in the drum. Slowly spin the drum until you can see a gear, take a screw driver and turn the gear a few times. Spin the drum until you see the second gear which should be more then 8 inches from the first I would guess. Adjust the second one the opposite way of the first one by turning the gear the opposite way of the first one. As you are doing the gears every now and then stop and spin the drum around to feel how much drag you have on it. You should have slight drag, but not too much. If you have no drag at all you are spinning the gears in the wrong direction.
You needed to specify to what depth the asphalt is being laid.
a perfect condition second hand megatone drum kit from cash converters like my black one, would cost about $450
High quality of drum heads can vary in price depending on the brand. One can expect to pay around $40-$50 for high quality drum heads. One can purchase this equipment from many online retailers such as Amazon.
Asphalt must be liquified before it can be pumped through pipes, mixed with stone aggregates, or sprayed through nozzles. Heating is one way to liquify asphalt for construction purposes. But when asphalt cools, it becomes a semisolid material. There are other ways to liquify asphalt for construction operations. One way is to emulsify it with an emulsifying agent and water. In the emulsification process, warm asphalt is mechanically milled into very very small globules (5-10 microns and smaller) and dispersed into the water treated with emulsigying agent. The emulsifying agent keeps the asphalt globules apart from one another and suspended in the water which allows the asphalt to be used at room and cold temperatures. After the emulsified asphalt is sprayed onto a surface or mixed with aggregates the water evaporates and leaves only the asphalt residue behind to cement the aggregates together or waterproof the surface it was sprayed on.