Everything You Need to Know About Wafer Brooms

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Keystone Plastic’s Poly, Wire, and Combo Wafers are forerunners in quality and durability, providing more usage hours between broom changeovers. Wafer Brooms are ideal for attacking tough road debris such as asphalt, gravel, mill grind, clay, and mud. These brooms are individual sections stacked together to make a complete brush and are the most cost-effective, compact, and accessible for shipping. There are three different types of material fills, IDs, ODs, and shapes.

Poly Wafer Brooms
Poly Wafer Brooms are the most common and popular type of Wafer Broom. They provide the highest level of flick, rigidity, and stiffness and have the longest life span in the industry.

All-Wire Wafer Brooms
The wire ends add an aggressive cutting action for your sweeping needs. They are great for milling mud and other complex debris on the road. They are typically stacked between Poly Wafers, creating an even mix and completing the broom.

Combo Wafer Brooms
Combo Wafer Brooms are half Poly and half Wire and provide ease of inventory and installation. They’re aggressive brooms that are long-lasting and will get the job done.

What are IDs?
IDs stand for Inside Diameter, which is the diameter of the inner ring of the wafer, where it attaches to the broom head. It is crucial for ensuring a proper fit and secure attachment. With the convoluted or spacer-less IDs, the highs hit the lows, self-spacing the wafer as you build it for a convoluted wafer with two pins and straddling the wafer rack.

What are ODs?
OD stands for Outside Diameter, which is the overall diameter of the wafer, including the sweeping material (bristles) protruding from the inner ring. It determines the broom’s overall width and sweeping capacity.

Flat Wafer
The Flat Wafers require a spacer, so when loading them, you would place the wafer first, followed by a spacer, followed by a wafer, etc.

Wafer Brooms are the most versatile and allow you to customize your brush to work best for you.