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Danfoss Braided Hose Fittings
Weatherhead Z-Series
Danfoss’s best selling one-piece bite the wire style hose fitting that is qualified with virtually all Weatherhead one and two braided hydraulic hoses.
Features
- New DURA-KOTE™ plating technology for up to 1,000 hours of corrosion resistance
- Bite the wire technology for best in class connection and sealing
- Class zero leakage SAE J1176 on approved hose styles
- Over 550 Z-Series part numbers available
- Danfoss’s WeatherMATCH program provides identification markings on the hose, hose fittings, and crimp dies for quick and easy assembly
Mining, metals and minerals
- Conveyors
- Excavator
- Mobile Crusher
- Off-Highway Dump Truck
- Stationary Crusher
- Wheel Loader
- Applications with medium to high pressure hydaulic hose
Mobile machinery and equipment
- Aerial Work Platforms (Scissor & Boom)
- All hp
- Application Equipment
- Backhoe Loader
- Balers
- Combines
- Compactor
- Crane
- Crawler Dozer
- Cultivation Equipment
- Defoliating Equipment
- Delimers
- Excavator
- Feller Bunchers
- Forwarders
- Irrigation
- Irrigation Systems
- Lift Trucks
- Loaders
- Mowers
- Paver
- Row Crop Planters
- Self-Propelled Forage Harvesters
- Self-Propelled Sprayers
- Self-Propelled Windrowers
- Skid Steer Loader
- Skidders
- Specialty Equipment/Debris
- Specialty Harvesting
- Stump Grinders and Wood Chippers
- Telehandler
- Tractors - 2WD:
- Tractors - 4WD:
- Tree Harvesters
- Trimming Equipment
- Utility Vehicles
- Wheeled Loader
- Yarders
- Applications with medium to high pressure hydaulic hose
- Compactor
Oil and gas
- Drill Systems
- Drilling Operations
- Hoisting Systems
- Applications with medium to high pressure hydaulic hose
Vehicles
- Dump
- Refuse Truck
- Transit Mixer
- Wrecker/Recovery
- Applications with medium to high pressure hydaulic hose
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Value Proposition Statement
Best in class corrosion resistance
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Value Proposition Statement
DURA-KOTE™ plating provides up to 1,000 hours of corrosion resistance per ASTM B117
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Routing Flexibility/Customization
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Low profile and short socket design in comparison to competitive and compression style fittings
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Value Proposition Statement
Over 550 Z-Series part numbers available with a wide variety of metric and imperial threaded terminal ends
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Value Proposition Statement
Inventory simplification and reduced inventory carrying cost (Distributor/End User)
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Value Proposition Statement
Qualified on over 25 unique hydraulic hose families reducing the need carry additional hose fitting styles for different hoses
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Value Proposition Statement
Best in class productivity and safety through the WeatherMATCH hose assembly process
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Reduces the chance of matching and mating errors
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Reduces training time to build a hose assembly
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Reduces the time to produce a hose assembly through color coordinated identifiers on the hose, hose fittings and crimp tooling
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Additional points
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Value Proposition Statement
Captive nuts for protection of over torquing during installation on select part numbers
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Use of non-brazed one piece nipples on most part numbers to eliminate potential failure mode
= Denotes point of differentiation