Increasing Durability by Using Steel Polishing Kits
Steel has shown its strength in many ways. It has held up skyscrapers, moved across oceans in ships, and withstood the ... Read More
How To Remove Scratches From Stainless Steel – A Complete Guide
How To Remove Scratches From Stainless Steel: Because of its slimline design, extended lifespan, and corrosion resistance, stainless steel is a ... Read More
Stainless Steel Polishing and Buffing – How to Polish Stainless Steel
Stainless steel looks good for a lot of things, from accent pieces to kitchen tools. Not only does it give architecture ... Read More
Powder Coating Aluminum vs Steel
What is Powder Coating? Powder coating is a popular finishing process used to improve the durability and look of metal components ... Read More
Remove Heat Treat Scale from a Worm Shaft
Heat treating steel parts is used to change the physical (sometimes chemical) properties of the metal. This process can harden the ... Read More
Prepping Steel for Paint
Many metals are naturally susceptible to oxidation. This is the reaction of the metal with oxygen to form an oxide. Steel, ... Read More
Polishing Tool Steel
Polishing hardened tool steel to a low Ra value often requires more than one step and long cycle times. Ra is ... Read More
Cleaning and Polishing Carbon Steel
These carbon steel parts had a blue coating on them that needed to be removed prior to polishing. Abrasive blasting was not an option as it could pit the metal and make it impossible to get a near mirror finish. Instead, a tumbling process was first used to remove the coating and then polish the part. Read More
Deburring Steel Parts
Machined steel parts often need to be deburred. For large quantities of parts, both barrel tumbling and vibratory tumbling can accomplish ... Read More
Glass Bead vs Aluminum Oxide for Deburring Steel
Machining and work-hardening steel creates burrs and scale that needs to be removed. The part in the middle of the picture ... Read More
Heavy Slag on Steel
When laser cut (or saw cut), steel parts can develop heavy slag on the edges (see picture above). The slag is ... Read More
Glass Bead Blasting on Steel
Before A quick before and after result of Fine Glass Bead blasting on steel parts. Before blasting part shows scratches, machine ... Read More
Heavy Duty Barrel Tumbling
It is indeed very satisfying for a manufacturer to watch raw, rough-edged metal parts emerge from a finishing process looking smooth, ... Read More
Grinding & Polishing Steel Blades
The process of taking a piece of hardened steel and grinding it down to the proper shape and design and then ... Read More
Cleaning Welding Discoloration
Welding steel is a process of creation and transformation. However, it leaves behind its unmistakable mark: heat discoloration, welding burns, streaks ... Read MoreSteel – Clean & Polish
Removing heavy rust (picture above) off steel can be accomplished successfully using an abrasive blasting process. While effective, the etched finish ... Read More