Surface Finishing Products and Equipment Reference Materials

Description: Sanding composite materials may look straightforward, but achieving consistent, high-quality results requires far more than simply picking up a sander. ...

Description: A quick-mount hub is a threaded hub permanently attached to a portable grinding wheel. It allows the wheel to be mounted directly onto a threaded angle-grinder arbor without additional flanges or ...

Description: Abrasive products are generally categorized into two main groups: bonded abrasives and coated abrasives. However, there’s a third category in the abrasives market that serves a specialized ...

Description: As more companies are faced with the need for labor, it’s no secret that automation provides a potential solution for mitigating workforce challenges. More than 517,000 industrial robots were ...

Description: In the world of optics, even a tiny speck of contamination can ruin a product. Whether you’re in precision manufacturing, medical imaging, or aerospace components, surface cleanliness ...

Description: Adhesion failures are among the most common yet preventable issues in composite bonding, coatings, and sealants. Whether in aerospace, automotive, or medical manufacturing, poor surface preparation ...

Description: In the world of manufacturing, surface treatment plays a crucial role in achieving high-performance adhesion. Whether bonding, coating, sealing, painting, or printing, every manufacturer understands ...

Description: Abrasive cup wheels are a fast, convenient way of grinding and cutting, but you must use caution and plan ahead like any cutting tool. By following OSHA and ANSI safety standards, you can be sure you ...

Description: Improving surface finish can be done by making adjustments to one or more of these points: operational parameters, wheel dressing, grit size, coolant delivery, and machine condition. ...

Description: New Product Development is an essential component to the successful growth of companies who always challenge themselves to improve and innovate. Getting this design stage right is pivotal in that it ...

Description: This page describes the different types of materials used for brushes including animal hair bristle brushes, vegetable fiber bristle brushes, synthetic material brushes, and wire bristle brushes. ...

Description: This chart shows the chemical reactivity with brush materials. ...

Description: Are you trying to remove burrs from flat metal parts? Although abrasive nylon brushes have been used for more than 20 years for this operation, understanding the need for planetary motion of the ...

Description: Fiber abrasive brushes are typically used to deburr extrusions and castings made from aluminum and other metals. Now these alternatives to wire and other highly abrasive brushes are being used to ...

Description: The expanding use of aluminum extruded shapes is placing higher quality demands on extruders and fabricators. Electronics related applications such as heat dissipation components (heat sinks) require ...