In the 1936 "Symposium on High-Strength Materials", from the Society for Testing Materials, discussion around the alloys of Aluminum lays out the basic formula of Aluminum-Copper-Silicon and notes that Magnesium is often omitted due to the "difficulty to fabricate" castings containing it. This weakness has long since been overcome. The fact that the "Wedge" of Aiud contains no Magnesium - hints that an older piece of equipment was used in the digging.
See: a dragline shovel made of aluminum, with Aluminum Bucket Teeth.
A further reason that such a piece of equipment has aluminum teeth is to reduce the weight of the apparatus - thereby increasing the load and efficiency of the operation. (Less energy is used just in moving the equipement, and a larger percentage of the rated lift capacity can be used for the load.)
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The top of the wedge has two holes for a round piece to be inserted, thus making it moveable. No teeth on a construction bucket are moveable. The third hole is for another solid round piece to keep it parallel to the ground. Again, not a property of a construction bucket.
ReplyDeleteAlso the fourth hole is in a position to prevent the object from moving laterally when in use. The third and fourth holes receive parts that are jointed but engineered to become ridged when in use.
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