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Bendix battles 'pirate' recon
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• Air brake equipment manufacturer Bendix is stepping up its battle against spurious or "pirate" reconditioners of its equipment by verifying stockist outlets and issuing literature. The company's 450 authorised stockists have had to en sure they sell only genuine Bendix remanufactured equip ment and not Bendix parts that have been reconditioned by an unauthorised source. Now stockists will be validated annually — a fact denoted by an "Authorised Stockist" window sticker which features the year of validation.
A new full colour poster features graphic examples of how equipment badly reconditioned as opposed to remanufactured can fail in service with potentially disastrous consequences.
The poster features a compressor that blew apart; the importance of fitting correct specification anti-explosion washers illustrated when a spring brake casing shattered; and a comparison between two seemingly alike power springs from a spring brake assembly — one genuine, one spurious.
Also freely available is a leaflet giving a listing of all remanufactured components.