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<p>If you are just looking for the cutting/scraping edge there are a lot of premade alternatives. All of the big road graders and loaders use a replaceable cutting edge. I imagine that a lot of snow type plows are made from mild steel with a hardened replaceable
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<p>Not sure if this helps or not. Good Luck.</p>
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<p>Brian Warrick</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 18, 2016 6:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eric@megageek.com<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Shop-talk] Metal for plow blades</font>
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On Dec 18, 2016, at 12:43, <a href="mailto:eric@megageek.com">eric@megageek.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Maybe someone here can point me to the type of metal I need for a plow blade.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I've made them from normal rolled steel and they grind down pretty fast. Do I need cold rolled, or is there something else I should be using?</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I have a few one and odd plows that I can't just buy a replacement blade for, so I need to make them (unless there is a good source I can buy premade ones.) </font> <br>
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The plows that tamed the prairies were made by Oliver, using "chilled steel" (really iron, I think ). It was cast with iron heat sinks (later, water cooled) in casting sand adjacent to the parts that needed to be hardened. That caused them to cool relatively
faster and participated carbide out, forming "white iron ". It's hard and brittle.
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<div>Modernly, plows and grading blades and such are similarly hard edges on a more ductile body. They are repaired by depositing hardened welding filler, and ground into shape. <br>
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