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be easy on me,i dont have much experience
Reply:Nice work. Are the sides AR plate?
Reply:Looks good, did you replace the cutting edge or just build it up. What size machine looks like maybe a pc300?
Reply:The sides are hardox 500, we had a piece on hand. The wear bars on the bottom  are Ar. Cutting edge didn't get replaced, just built up. Machine is a Pc400
Reply:Looks pretty good!
Reply:Thanks guys
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Reply:The edge was still in good shape? The top side of the shanks were likenew, bottom was worn so I built them up with hard face and added 4" strips of ar in between. Should get plenty more digging from it and them it will be replaced.
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Reply:How did you strip the old wearbars air arc?
Reply:Originally Posted by abaralnekThe edge was still in good shape? The top side of the shanks were likenew, bottom was worn so I built them up with hard face and added 4" strips of ar in between. Should get plenty more digging from it and them it will be replaced.
Reply:The wear bars on the bottom are Ar. Cutting edge didn't get replaced, just built up.
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Reply:Thanks! The wear bars were cutting off with a torch. Definitely some scalloping going and your right it's because of the edge thinning. I blame opperator abuse. The bucket has dug nothing but blasted ledge and was just past 1 year since a fresh rebuild. He must have used the bucket to doors of grading of the ledge floor, only the bottom side of the edge was worn. I welded 1" thick ar wear bars in between the adaptors on the bottom side. Still got the scalloping but should wear for awhile
Reply:In the Klondike gold fields the inside of the bucket generally wears out before the wear bars on the back of the bucket. We had a PC400 feeding the sluice plant at 400 yards an hour and every spring was bucket rebuild time.