Barrel tumblers make sliding friction using rotary movement combined with abrasive, tumbling media. Imagine you are putting rocks in an old barrel and rolling it up a hill. As the parts slide on the media, or against each other part, deburring or polishing happens.
Built in a heavy duty construction with a smaller footprint designed to accommodate a job shop with various applications such as deburring, dross removal, calibrating/dimensioning, edge radiusing or finishing.
Centrifugal barrel tumbling machines are the fastest and most cost-effective method for deburring and/or polishing large quantities of metal parts at once. Also known as an industrial tumbler, rotary tumbler or harperizer system, a centrifugal barrel finishing machine uses a cyclical sliding action to grind the metal surface. Centrifugal barrel finishing is a type of mass finishing.
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For removing significant burrs or blending lines caused by machining, centrifugal barrel-tumbling machines are well-suited. They are excellent in polishing, burnishing, and other applications. The centrifugal bar machines can work with a variety of organic and ceramic media, including corn-cob, to achieve any type of part finish, from extremely fine surface polishing to burr elimination.
The 2000-Series machines are made with heavy production requirements. They are designed to handle such applications as deburring, slag grinding, calibrating/dimensioning, edge radiusing, paint/surface preparation, finishing/polishing or a combination of these applications.
A centrifugal barrel tumbling machine works on the same principle as a Ferris-wheel, but has smaller baskets that are attached to the edges. The centrifugal finishing machine or harperizing systems has 4 barrels. Each one represents a seat in a Ferris wheel. One large flywheel is also included. Each revolution of this flywheel produces one complete rotation for each barrel. The flywheel rotates quickly and produces extremely high centrifugal pressures, up to 15 to 20 times greater than the force of gravity. Under high pressure, the contents slide against each other. The increased pressure allows fast processing of metal parts as well as consistent and smooth finishes.
Our machines support as many as four working heads, with the ability to customize them with a variety of rotating brushes, abrasive belts, and oscillating disks based on your application’s unique needs.
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As a rule, media that is darker cuts faster. If plastic media is very dark it's more likely that it will be quickly cut using a more aggressive abrasive. Mild cutting is possible with mildly-abrasive mass finishing in lighter media.
These machines can handle multiple shift and seven day a week operations. They are built to meet the most stringent production requirements.
Top/bottom machine processes both top and below the surface in one pass. Every square inch is processed exactly as it should be over the full width of the machine.
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Finishing processes can be used to improve the following characteristics: appearance, adhesion or wettability, solderability, corrosion resistance, tarnish resistance, chemical resistance, wear resistance, hardness, modify electrical conductivity, remove burrs and other surface flaws, and control surface friction.
The law of attraction between positively and negatively charged particles underpins the finishing technique of applying a coating to a metal surface. The paint is usually positively charged, while the support to be painted is negatively charged because it is wired to a strong electric field.
Surface Finishing Machine has a metallic bowl that holds media, water, and finishing compounds.