Yes, the carbides come welded to the wear bars.

Some people call them wear bars. Some people call them carbides. Some people call them skegs. Some people call them ski runners. They are all the same thing.

 

Back in the day we didn't have carbides..... just wear bars or skegs as we called them. When they wore out we would go to the local hardware store and buy 1/2" steel bar. We would cut them to length with a hacksaw and then a guy across the street would weld bolts on for us.

Those were the days........

 

Being around sleds since 1970, my father would get the tool & diemakers where he worked to make new ones, plus motor mounts for his Oly (I guess they wre prone to cracking too.

As previously said. In the old days ('70's) the wear bars used to plain steel rods that wore out quickly. Back then the super deluxe wear bars had carbide inserts welded onto them hence folks calling them ''carbides''.
Now we also have shaper bars.

Growing up it was runners and then carbides in the 80s. In the 90s I had access to hard weld electrodes, so I was able to build up the front where the OEM hardweld was a bit thin.


I don't really recall anyone calling them by the trade name of which there are many brand & styles.

 

As previously said. In the old days ('70's) the wear bars used to plain steel rods that wore out quickly. Back then the super deluxe wear bars had carbide inserts welded onto them hence folks calling them ''carbides''.
Now we also have shaper bars.

 

As previously said. In the old days ('70's) the wear bars used to plain steel rods that wore out quickly. Back then the super deluxe wear bars had carbide inserts welded onto them hence folks calling them ''carbides''.
Now we also have shaper bars.

don't forget Navigators

 

Great, Thank you for information!

 

SnowTrackers are the best!!!!!!

 

just bought my first set of semi aggressives for my 1200 with TS skis, haven't gotten a chance to try them out yet stupid COVID got me when we would have had enough snow for me to even ride a rail bed to shack off any rust

 

When we were in high school, early 80's. We would bring our wearbars into welding class and lay some heavy beads down the wearbar

 

Can you even buy wear bars anymore?

 

When I worked at Christmas sports before the turn of the century, we had boxes and boxes of old wearbars. And if we didn't have the right ones Scott would hack off a few of the bolts and weld them on to line up with your ski. Granted by this time it was mostly kids and ice fisherman. Different times, now dad buys junior a brand new $8-20,000 sled and thinks nothing of it. Glad to have grown up saving and paying for stuff. Learned lessons on so many levels, especially keeping that old crap running. Now I can figure out how to fix lots of stuff and solve problems. A lost art