We ran 2 1482's for years. One winter I removed the rotor from one and covered all the worn parts of the cone with light metal. I used an arc welder although I have since found out how great a mig works in situations like that. I just welded and hammered it to the shape of the cone. The other combine I did the same thing but only removed the header and stone trap, not the rotor. We ran these 2 machines 3 more years putting about 4500 acres of every kind of crop though each of them. i have since parted them out, but the patches are still there, with no holes in them and none torn off. About $10 of sheet metal and a half a day of welding was a lot cheaper than 2 new cones. It did not seem to affect feeding as we could still plug the rotor easily. Good luck.