Thick basic-covered electrode for depositing tough and wear resisting overlays on structural members subjected to severe wear. The weld metal is free of cracks and pores and resistant to impact and shock. It can be machined only by grinding. Only in case of very crack sensitive base metals, a tough buffer layer, made with UNIVERS or CITOCHROMAX N electrodes, is required. Multi-layers deposits will be free of cracks, even without depositing intermediate buffer layers. Suitable for hardfacing excavator parts, bucket edges and bucket teeth, drilling bits, coal planes, conveyor screws, polygon edges, crusher jaws and cones. Preferred to use with DC, electrode in positive (+) pole and also possible to use with AC.