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Possible Causes of Blade Failure

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Possible Causes of Blade Failure

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