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| S. Heslop:
This is a topic that i'm having an oddly difficult time finding information on. My main concern is of course parts catching. The thing I want to polish seems like it'd be particularly prone to catching. I want to try polishing these with a wheel mostly to round the edges. The other ways I can think of doing it all require alot of tedious and hard work. But I don't really know enough about polishing to know if this is viable. |
| Pete.:
Wouldn't you be better-off with a scotchbrite wheel? I don't think de-burring those with a mop will go very well. |
| chipenter:
A whire weel would de bur them first then polish on a sisle mop . |
| SwarfnStuff:
At the risk of preaching to the converted, your concern about safety is good whichever wheel you choose. I would start with wire then move to whatever your favourite buffing wheel is. Safety wise, and I'm sure you realise anyway, stand to one side, never directly in front. Wear full face protection specially with the wire, safety goggles are better than glasses but that wire hurts, so full face protection is the way to go. Try as best you can to have the hook / catchy bits pointing away from the wheel rotation. John B |
| DMIOM:
Couple of risk-reduction ideas: If you're using a bench-top machine, you could probably get a lot of the initial work done using a bristle mop (such as this one currently on eBay. A bristle wheel is less likely to catch but they do fling an odd high-speed bristle out at you occasionally! Even used dry, they'll do a particularly good job of cleaning up the threaded portion, I also use them on knurled work. If you do use them with buffing compound, you need to be careful when you load the wheel as a bristle brush can eat into your compound bar at an alarming rate (and spray most of it everywhere!). Whatever wheel you're using, the highest risk will, I suspect, be when you're polishing the hooked end. You won't want to grab the thread with a pair of mole grips - but that would fit beautifully into some form of handle - just pop a suitable threaded hole deep enough into a length of scrap bar to make a handle to hold them by? You could then reverse the 'mass/power balance' by using a handheld machine (Dremel, die grinder etc.) with any of the vast range of small polishing felts, mops, wheels etc. out there. Dave |
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