WEAR FACTOR
Kueper® XT Armored
Enhanced Kennametal® Carbide Blade with TASSCO wear plate
Introducing Kueper® XT, engineered to stand up against Winter’s harshest plowing conditions. Composed of Kennametal premium carbide plow blades armored with Tassco XT-500 thru hardened high performance steel, offering maximum wear life and optimal impact protection.
Kueper by Kennametal® tungsten carbide blades are specifically designed for a variety of plowing applications. Kueper by Kennametal® uses premium Kennametal® tungsten carbide, ensuring high durability and fracture resistance. Combined with high quality steel, Kueper by Kennametal® blades provide an excellent match for modern snowplow technology.
A high degree of efficiency is guaranteed through the balance of wear between the tungsten carbide and the steel body, thus insuring the complete use of the tungsten carbide inserts in each snowplow blade, ultimately resulting in quality, time, and cost advantages.
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Offers the optimal balance of hardness and toughness in an alloy steel while maintaining weldability and formability
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Quench, tempered, and thru hardened to achieve BHN 450 – 514 hardness
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Excellent depth of hardness achieved by balanced use of chromium, molybdenum, and manganese
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High impact and abrasion resistant
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Highway
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Country Road
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Airport
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City
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Parking Lots
TASSCO Steel – High impact, abrasion resistant steel. Quench, tempered, and thru hardened to achieve BHN 450-514 hardness
Tungsten Carbide – A chemical compound consisting of equal parts tungsten and carbon. It is characterized by its extreme hardness, which is nearly as high as that of diamonds. This material stands up to the toughest loads.
Kueper® and Kennametal® developed special brazing techniques in order to ensure a permanent connection between the two materials, which is critical to insure maximized tool life. The production process is controlled using strict criteria and in-process inspection and analysis. For instance, the braze joint quality is checked by means of shear resistance.
These extra efforts pay off in the field of application. During operation, the blades heat up tremendously. Tungsten carbide and steel have different thermal characteristics. This causes enormous nominal tensile stress within the blade when in use.
To counteract this, we employ a special brazing material that resists and absorbs these resultant tensile stresses.
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