Tag: Cat Heavy Machinery Parts

How To Find Obsolete Machinery Parts

Most manufacturers change machine models every 4 or 5 years. If there are new engine emission requirements coming into force, they may have to change sooner than expected.. Conversely, they might also delay rolling out a new model in anticipation of new requirements expected to come into force. The new models will often have a…

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How to Dismantle Heavy Construction Equipment for Used Parts

Cat 730 ADT Serial No B1M0719 Overseas Plant and Used Parts Sales, who are a long term UrParts.com parts supplier, gave us some feedback on how they dismantle a machine when they get it in for breaking. They recently purchased a fire damaged Cat 730 directly from the owner. The fire was located around the…

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How to find a Cat Part Number

Once you have diagnosed the problem with your machine you need to locate the replacement part and this task is much easier if you have the correct part number. These are a few ways to do this: Locate The Part Number 1. Some parts like hydraulic cylinders will have the part number stamped onto the…

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Our Conexpo-Conagg-2017 Journey

Conexpo-Conagg-2017 As we reflect on our journey to conexpo-conagg-2017 Las Vegas, we were delighted to have the rare opportunity to meet and greet some of our most successful Part Suppliers. These are the people that work tirelessly behind the scenes to help our 45,000+ Buyers find Parts every single day. They do this by ensuring the…

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9,000+ Registered Users

We at UrParts.com regularly have nice things to celebrate but this week we hit a particularly momentous occasion when we went over 9,000 users. As we eat, breath and sleep parts, it’s good to know that over 9,000 people out there have come to us for help. Just knowing that we helped all these people save both…

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Not “Sub-thing” you see everyday!

Look what we spotted passing the office window this morning. Wonder if they need any parts… A Marine engine perhaps?

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10,000 Requests and a 10,000 ft Drop!!

  In honour of our 10,000th Parts Request our very own and very brave Mary-Jane will be taking part in a Charity 10,000 ft Skydive this Saturday the 7th September! We don’t know what to be more excited about, 10,000 satisfied Buyers or 10,000 ft Free fall?!!? Good Luck Mary-Jane – we will be safe…

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Competition Increases for Fire Damaged Machines

Prices for the fire damaged, or general machines for spare parts, at the recent Euro Auction in Leeds were remarkably high. Biding between competing dismantlers was fierce as they all try to increase their inventory of available used parts. Even though there has been a marked decrease in the scrap value of the metal, this increase in…

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UrParts Claims Gold Prize at the Vodafone Startup Awards 2013

We are delighted to announce that UrParts.com were Gold Prize Winner for the Export Company of the Year at the Vodafone sponsored Startup Awards 2013.  Not only were we recognized as the best in this category but we also scooped Silver Prize for the Digital/Online and Silver Prize for Women in Business.  We are delighted to…

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Poor results for Europe’s construction sector in first quarter.

Results for the European construction industry fell again for the fifth month in a row in March 2013 with a decline rate of 1.7% since February and 7.9% since March 2013.  Results came from the European Unions’s statistic agency and included 17 countries in the Euro area.  Results varied across the different member states as some…

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