Tumble polishing
I'm curious about anyone who has experience with LARGE tumbling
operations. We have a large volume (perhaps up to several tons a day) of oblong ceramic balls that we would like to make more round. Yes, no metal is involved but I've heard more about tumble polishing with ball bearings and things rather than ceramics. Would tumbling with, say, SiC or other abrasive particles accomplish this reasonably efficiently. Is there a better process for very large volumes? Any good books or sources on the principals of tumbling that i should read? thanks |
Tumble polishing
"010 010" wrote in message ... I'm curious about anyone who has experience with LARGE tumbling operations. We have a large volume (perhaps up to several tons a day) of oblong ceramic balls that we would like to make more round. Yes, no metal is involved but I've heard more about tumble polishing with ball bearings and things rather than ceramics. Would tumbling with, say, SiC or other abrasive particles accomplish this reasonably efficiently. Is there a better process for very large volumes? Any good books or sources on the principals of tumbling that i should read? thanks I have a 10hp 6' x 4' tumbler that we polish wood blocks with. I don't think that tumbling will change your shape much, just smooth and polish. |
Tumble polishing
"Buerste" wrote in message ... "010 010" wrote in message ... I'm curious about anyone who has experience with LARGE tumbling operations. We have a large volume (perhaps up to several tons a day) of oblong ceramic balls that we would like to make more round. Yes, no metal is involved but I've heard more about tumble polishing with ball bearings and things rather than ceramics. Would tumbling with, say, SiC or other abrasive particles accomplish this reasonably efficiently. Is there a better process for very large volumes? Any good books or sources on the principals of tumbling that i should read? thanks I have a 10hp 6' x 4' tumbler that we polish wood blocks with. I don't think that tumbling will change your shape much, just smooth and polish. it might round off edges a bit, but it won't make them round if they are not already almost there. |
Tumble polishing
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:41:24 -0700, charlie wrote:
"Buerste" ... wrote .... "010 010" offonoffoffonoff... wrote ... I'm curious about anyone who has experience with LARGE tumbling operations. We have a large volume (perhaps up to several tons a day) of oblong ceramic balls that we would like to make more round. Yes, no metal is involved but I've heard more about tumble polishing with ball bearings and things rather than ceramics. Would tumbling with, say, SiC or other abrasive particles accomplish this reasonably efficiently. Is there a better process for very large volumes? .... I have a 10hp 6' x 4' tumbler that we polish wood blocks with. I don't think that tumbling will change your shape much, just smooth and polish. it might round off edges a bit, but it won't make them round if they are not already almost there. To the OP -- how large are these ceramic balls, and how eccentric is the oblong shape? By "more round", do you mean more spherical? If these balls are a couple inches or less across, and off by less than a mm or so, buy or make a bunch of marble mills, as shown eg at http://home.earthlink.net/~jmcdohsd/id15.html Or you might be able to set up a ball grinding pipeline using a modified form of the cast iron rollers shown at 1:00 - 1:30 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0D-i_oKvKQ -- jiw |
Tumble polishing
the balls are only 5-6 mm.
Actually, though they are friable before curing, they can be cured after they are made spherical, so the cast iron rollers in the video could work very well. The other type of marble mill would be a huge pain if processing millions of balls a day as we are. great suggestions, thanks. |
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