Author: Urparts

Useful Tips for Selling Construction Parts & Components Online

  Trust remains the central issue when buying online in both B2C & B2B markets. Avoiding transactions that seem potentially risky is the decisive factor when considering whether to complete a purchase of either goods or services.

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Communicating With The Modern Customer

  So you’ve invested in your website and have spent the necessary hours in discussions with web developers to design and create a site to be proud of.   All this hard work is necessary to keep up with your competitors and be visible to Google and other search-engines.  The style of website you create is…

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Fax Machines.. Remember Them?

How Times Have Changed   Forget about the old marketing methods that our fathers built their businesses on, the world has changed forever.   Growing up in Ireland, we watched our Heavy Machinery Dealer father doing business which usually concluded in several hours in the local pub and several pints of Guinness! It was all…

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Visitors Guide to Bauma 2019

  It seems that everyone is attending Bauma this year and it can be information overload!  Here at UrParts, we love to keep life simple and have put together a comprehensive Visitors Guide with Ticket information, Opening Times, Maps, Exhibitors Links and all you need to know about how to get to and from the…

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Temperature Effects On Tyres

Extreme Heat and Extreme Cold can Have Effects on Machinery Tyres; What to Know and How to Protect Them.   It’s proven that the tyre pressure can be increased and decreased by 3-4% when exposed to high and low temperatures. In other words, we see increases in tyre pressure in places with hot surfaces and…

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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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Machines for Breaking

UrParts have used machinery parts available for a range of the leading machines types including Excavators, Loaders, Dozers, Backhoes plus much, much more…

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Brexit and Used Parts

​​How will Brexit Affect the Used Parts Business? 15 months on from the Brexit vote and we look at how the result has affected the construction equipment parts business. The most immediate effect has been the decline in the value of Sterling.  At one stage it dropped to its lowest value in 31 years. Last Week…

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Bobby Kerr Newstalk.com

It was a real pleasure to meet one of Ireland’s most loved businessman and radio personality Bobby Kerr again. He did a live broadcast last Saturday morning in Cork. The last time we saw Bobby was after winning 3 awards at the Startup Awards in 2013. We’ve come a long way since the then!! Bobby…

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