We will help you find the perfect machine for any metalworking job, regardless of whether your application requires small, lightweight systems to deburr smaller projects or larger, more robust models to perform multiple shifts and facilitate large-scale production.

A variety of applications can be achieved with our dry metal machines, including grinding, graining or deburring, finishing, removing oxide, dimensioning, radiusing edges, and dimensioning. We offer both wet and dry machine configurations depending on the materials being processed. Because of the lower levels and coarser grit required for grinding, we recommend dry machines.

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The dry metal machine selection offers solutions for a range of applications including finishing, grinding, finishing, oxide elimination, dimensioning and edge radiusing. We offer both dry and moist metal machines depending on the material being processed. Dry machines are better for grinding as they can use less grit and coarser grind in areas where temperature is not a concern.

How do you finish a metal machine

This industry standard is the centrifugal bar finishing system. It can be used with many kinds of metals including aluminum, brass, stainless steels, chrome, titanium, and stainless steel. This type of system is not able to deburr plastic parts as it is too soft.

A centrifugal barrel tumbling machine is the most efficient and cost-effective method of deburring large numbers of metal parts and/or polishing them at once. Also called an industrial tumbler, circular tumbler, or harperizer, the centrifugal bar finishing machine uses a sliding action to grind metal surfaces. One type of mass finishing is centrifugal bar finishing.

How do you finish a metal machine
Final Processing

Final Processing

The vibratory tumbler uses a side-to–side motion to shake a tub or bowl in a circular pattern, much like the rock polishing kit that many of us used as children. As the media and parts are sheared against each other, the finishing takes place in a scrubbing motion.

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Vibratory tumblers use a side-to-side movement to shake a bowl or tub in a circular path, similar to the rock polishing kits that many of us played with as children. The finishing occurs in a scrubbing action as the parts and media shear against each other.

What is the finishing process
What is the finishing process

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.

A grinding wheel is a disc or cylinder for machining via abrasive or cutting action, or for sharpening cutting tools....

Materials

Our metalworking machines are trusted by clients in a variety of industries.

In addition, using a centrifugal barrel finishing machine increases consistency in quality. Handwork at best yields an 80% acceptance rate, but with a centrifugal barrel finisher you can achieve much higher rates of acceptance. In addition, the surface finish after centrifugal part tumbling is isotropic and consistent in all directions, unlike hand polishing.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Surface Finishing Machine has a metallic bowl that holds media, water, and finishing compounds.

Finishes are applied at the end of a construction or manufacturing process to form the final surface of an element. They can protect the element they finish from impact, water, frost, corrosion, abrasion, and other elements, as well as be decorative.