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Location: Germantown,wi | Hey guys got kind of a weird question for ya. Has anyone tried a rock tumbler type machine for deburring metal parts? I'm looking to try something to save time making wings for creepers and such. Been looking at an industrial type tumbler in the Grainger book and they offer several different compounds of media that debur and polish. Presently I debur with a special wheel on a bench grinder then move on to polishing the pieces, the most time consuming part of making creepers.
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Location: Elk River, MN | I've use a tumbler before , and I would assume you are using stainless? Then you will probably want to go with ceramic media. I dont think you will get the polished shine you are looking for. Its more of a dull finish.
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | I worked at a Tumbling shop in Michigan for 12 years before I went full time in the lure industry. When tumbling stainless parts we used aluminum oxide stones and powdered Aluminum oxide to do the deburring. After the parts were deburred they would be rough so the media was screened out and the parts put in with soft stuff like cobbs or ceramic pebbles and muratic acid for about 10 minutes. Then we would drain off the Acid and add soap and clean water to the parts and tumble for say half an hour. The Acid and soap Burnishes clean and buff the surface to a high lustere shine. Some of the stuff we did looked like jewels when we were through. You could hire that work out to a shop like that . Kingfisher |
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