TABLE OF CONTENTS This is a practical book for process engineers, operators, and owners of mass finishing processes. It covers deburring, edge finishing, and surface finishing, but it dwells heavily on deburring. It is a book of practice rather than an overview, written by an engineer who ran or studied the tumbling processes for 40 years. It is a book about how to do a job better and more quickly and cheaply. It is about how to prevent problems. Based on 70 years of history and a review of 4500 publications and 40,000 pages of literature, it comes from discussions with vendors and users from around the world. For comparisons with other processes and a general overview, readers will want to read a companion book (Gillespie 1999).
Mass Finishing Handbook includes chapters on standards, economics, automation, and the impact of burr size that engineers and owners will find particularly useful. First-time users who would read this book before they buy machines will likely save tens of thousands of dollars. Equipment operators will find that the chapters on specific processes (such as vibratory deburring, centrifugal finishing, centrifugal disks, and others) offer detailed step-by-step instructions as well as problem-solving ideas. Inspectors and owners will find the chapter on inspection and training unique for their needs.
Mass finishing, also called loose abrasive finishing, is the term most commonly associated with abrasive tumbling operations. Typically a large number of parts are placed in the deburring machine and all are deburred at the same time...
