cinematechnic
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2005
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA
This isn't lathe related, but I posted this here because I know the members here have first-hand experince with top quality machinery and can make an informed suggestion.
I would like to know what the best small surface grinder is. The average size job I would run on the surface grinder will not have a dimension larger than 3 inches / 75 mm. However, I am looking for consistent accuracy of 0.0004 in / 0.01 mm.
The main job for the grinder would be to surface grind rails for the aperture of a movie camera (where the film runs and is exposed). The rails are very important because they control the side to side steadiness of the image.
One of my customers runs up to 400,000 feet of film through each camera each year. The film cuts groves in the nickel plate on the rails, so I would need to strip the plating, grind and then send out to be re-plated.
Also considering plating with TiN or other such coatings over nickel or hard chrome to increase abrasion resistance even further. Anybody here ever had TiN coatintgs put on your custom parts or tools?
Thanks,
Jorge Diaz-Amador
CinemaTechnic
I would like to know what the best small surface grinder is. The average size job I would run on the surface grinder will not have a dimension larger than 3 inches / 75 mm. However, I am looking for consistent accuracy of 0.0004 in / 0.01 mm.
The main job for the grinder would be to surface grind rails for the aperture of a movie camera (where the film runs and is exposed). The rails are very important because they control the side to side steadiness of the image.
One of my customers runs up to 400,000 feet of film through each camera each year. The film cuts groves in the nickel plate on the rails, so I would need to strip the plating, grind and then send out to be re-plated.
Also considering plating with TiN or other such coatings over nickel or hard chrome to increase abrasion resistance even further. Anybody here ever had TiN coatintgs put on your custom parts or tools?
Thanks,
Jorge Diaz-Amador
CinemaTechnic