Thanks guys for all of your suggestions. I really appreciate the advice. All of you seem
to recognize what a job this will be. I have already picked
up a couple of 1/2 inch titanium bits and a couple of
1/4 inch titanium bits as well. The JD cutting edge
has ten holes in it so I assumed that I should use them all.
Every cutting edge I have seen on large equipment
has all of the bolts attached. Using all of them might
keep small rocks etc from getting wedged between the
bottom of the bucket and the cutting edge.
I don't have access to a magnetic base drill and I can't
justify one in my mind just for this job even though I am sure that it would really help. I thought of trying to use
my drill press but it is a full size floor model and manhandling the bucket seems like quite a chore.
I didn't think of using a bench drill press. I've have been thinking about getting one of those for a long time. Maybe I will pick one up for this job. The cutting edge is a little longer than the bucket is wide so I will have to drill and mark from the bottom. The hot drill, a.k.a a blue wrench
would help but I don't think I could control it well enough
to keep from messing up the bucket.
Thanks again everyone.
Here's a picture of the cutting edge attached. It's on
the 460 FEL not the 430 but it gets the idea across.
http://tractorbynet.com/images/4000armor_500.jpg