Nerdlinger
Stainless
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2013
- Location
- Chicago, IL
Hi Everyone! I have a steel plate, soft 1050, about the size of your hand and about .134" thick. It ultimately gets ground, polished (buffed), and nickel chrome plated. I have been hitting it with a face mill to give the guys in the grinding room a head start. I recently had success with an Ingersoll face mill using wiper inserts that get the part pretty darn smooth - 8Ra" maybe? I tried skipping the grinding belts and going straight to the buffing wheel and we were almost there (just a couple swirlies left over from the wiper) but I think if we got the part one "notch" smoother after the wiper inserts we would be good to go straight to the buffing wheel.
Sooooo I'm thinking either Brush Research Nam Power brush or XEBEC brush of some sort. Does anyone have any experience with either of these companies or, better yet, experience using them to polish steel parts? Or maybe there's another company I should be considering. Also, is it okay to have abrasive material in a VMC as long as coolant is there to flush away the spent grit??
Thank you for your help!
Sooooo I'm thinking either Brush Research Nam Power brush or XEBEC brush of some sort. Does anyone have any experience with either of these companies or, better yet, experience using them to polish steel parts? Or maybe there's another company I should be considering. Also, is it okay to have abrasive material in a VMC as long as coolant is there to flush away the spent grit??
Thank you for your help!