I just had a product line explode on me. I need to ramp up and dial stuff in.
One component I have troubles with is carburized mild steel about .130" thick and 1.5" x 3.5"
When these come back from carburizing some "potato chip" a bit. Some get a small twist to them. I have to rotary tumble to remove the heat treat smut then I sort them on a surface plate. I probably discard 20% from some batches. That's a lot of parts.
These parts seat against machined surfaces and can go in either way. Both sides need to be flat within a few thou, but paralellism does not matter at all as long as the part looks good to the eye.
I'd like to replace the sorting out the twisted ones with a process that makes every part a winner.
I think I want a small Blanchard, but I hear from one of my customers they are incredibly messy and I run on a 60HP phase converter. It would suck to get one and not have the Pixies to run it.
Can lapping machines get aggressive? Can they remove .015" or more in a reasonable time?
I live in knife country (Benchmade, Leatherman, Gerber, CRKT, Kershaw, etc) and always hear that double disk grinders are worth more than gold by weight. Are there any lower cost similar processes?
Anything else that might do it with, say, sub-10HP so I could run it while running everything else and I could break into for under $10k give or take a few grand?
One component I have troubles with is carburized mild steel about .130" thick and 1.5" x 3.5"
When these come back from carburizing some "potato chip" a bit. Some get a small twist to them. I have to rotary tumble to remove the heat treat smut then I sort them on a surface plate. I probably discard 20% from some batches. That's a lot of parts.
These parts seat against machined surfaces and can go in either way. Both sides need to be flat within a few thou, but paralellism does not matter at all as long as the part looks good to the eye.
I'd like to replace the sorting out the twisted ones with a process that makes every part a winner.
I think I want a small Blanchard, but I hear from one of my customers they are incredibly messy and I run on a 60HP phase converter. It would suck to get one and not have the Pixies to run it.
Can lapping machines get aggressive? Can they remove .015" or more in a reasonable time?
I live in knife country (Benchmade, Leatherman, Gerber, CRKT, Kershaw, etc) and always hear that double disk grinders are worth more than gold by weight. Are there any lower cost similar processes?
Anything else that might do it with, say, sub-10HP so I could run it while running everything else and I could break into for under $10k give or take a few grand?