5 tips for better finishing with steel brushes: Getting more performance and life for improved resultsSteel wire brushes are essential finishing tools in most metal fabrication shops. Fabricators can take five actions to help improve the performance and life span of these brushes: use the highest safe speed, periodically reverse direction; know when to use crimped or knot wire brushes; keep stainless steel brushes clean; and purchase heat-treated, oil-tempered steel wire.
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Easing the grind of cost reduction: Automotive supplier finds success with new disks for flash removal, deburringIn early 2005 SPX CONTECH decided to evaluate the abrasive disks used in its 22 workcells for aluminum grinding in its Auburn, Ind., facility. By the end of the year the new disks had increased the number of parts processed and exhibited improved life per disk.
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Got burrs?: Making choices for deburring, graining sheet, plateUsing a machine to remove burrs from and put a surface finish on sheet metal and plate, also known as deburring and graining, is more complicated than it seems. The factors that go into selecting and setting up a deburring and graining machine are almost as numerous as the factors that cause burrs in the first place. Some of the important factors you have to consider are machine type (wet or dry), setup (the arrangement of sanding belts and deburring brushes), sanding drum hardness and diameter, brush type, and feed rate.
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Avoiding a snag: Automated deburring ensures nylon-stocking-friendly finishA company specializing in perforated sheet overcomes deburring issues with an automated system using nonwoven fiber brushes.
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High-speed cutting, end-finishing -- a means to an end: Fluidity is keyLeading Edge Hydraulics improves tube cutting efficiencies with a high-speed cutter, plus integrated end forming for its fluid power tube manufacturing.
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