
How to Choose a Shear Blade for Plate Steel
Plate shear blades see impact, work-hardening substrate and variable stock thickness. The grade, hardness and chamfer choice drive a 10× difference in service.

Plate shear blades see impact, work-hardening substrate and variable stock thickness. The grade, hardness and chamfer choice drive a 10× difference in service.

A plate shear blade that cracks at the edge is almost always one of four things: chamfer too small, hardness too high, blade gap wrong, or plate out of spec.