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| #1 Heavy even wear on tips and corners of teeth |
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| #2 Wear on both sides of teeth |
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| #3 Wear on one side of teeth |
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| #4 Chipped or broken teeth |
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| #5 Discolored tips of teeth due to excessive frictional heat |
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| #6 Tooth strippage |
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| #7 Chips welded to tooth tips |
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| #8 Gullets loading up with material |
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| #9 Heavy wear on both sides of band |
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| #10 Uneven wear or scoring on sides of the band |
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| #11 Body breakage or cracks from gullets |
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| #12 Body breakage-fracture traveling in angular direction |
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| #13 Body breakage or cracks from back edge |
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| #14 Hea vy wear and/or swaging on back edge #15 Butt weld breakage |
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| #15 Butt weld breakage |
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| #16 Used band is "long" on the tooth edge |
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| #17 Used band is "short" on the tooth edge |
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| #18 Band is twisted into figure "8" configuration |
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| #19 Broken band shows a twist in band length |
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| #20 Heavy wear in only the smallest gullets |
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