Are your wear parts hard enough?
The simple answer is: It depends. But that doesn’t give you much guidance when you are deciding which wear-resistant steel to choose that will optimize productivity and longevity for the wear parts in your equipment.To start, you should evaluate the abrasive materials you’re working with. Common materials include crushed granite, copper ore, iron ore, limestone and coal, ranked based on their relative hardness. Next, you’ll want to determine the desired maintenance interval to minimize downtime for the entire operation.
Looking at a typical mining site, wear steel is used as liners in
