ewlsey
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2009
- Location
- Peoria, IL
I finally bought a Biax power scraper. Now I'm looking at my hand scrapers the way I looked at my bicycle on my 16th birthday...
Anyway, I'm getting the hang of it. I think I figured out the roughing. I used a long and flexible blade with a wide nose and large radius and a 15mm stroke length. That got me roughed-in in short order. But I'm not sure how to transition into finish scraping to break up the large high spots and get a better distribution of points.
Do I just shorten up the stroke and try to move a little faster?
Also, this is a Chinese angle plate and I ran into some inclusions in the casting that are hard as a coffin nail. The carbide scraper will not touch them. Does anyone have tips to deal with that? I might try an angle grinder just to see if I can bring them down a bit.
Anyway, I'm getting the hang of it. I think I figured out the roughing. I used a long and flexible blade with a wide nose and large radius and a 15mm stroke length. That got me roughed-in in short order. But I'm not sure how to transition into finish scraping to break up the large high spots and get a better distribution of points.
Do I just shorten up the stroke and try to move a little faster?
Also, this is a Chinese angle plate and I ran into some inclusions in the casting that are hard as a coffin nail. The carbide scraper will not touch them. Does anyone have tips to deal with that? I might try an angle grinder just to see if I can bring them down a bit.