When it comes to achieving a smooth surface finish, selecting the right burnishing tool is essential. Carbide Roll and Diamond burnishing tools each offer unique benefits and excel in different applications. Understanding these differences can help ensure you make the right choice and achieve the best surface finish for your project.
Surface finish significantly affects the performance, durability, and quality of manufactured parts. A smoother finish reduces friction and wear, enhancing the part's longevity. Burnishing, a process that compresses the part's surface, is a common technique to improve surface finish. However, it's effectiveness relies on the material's ductility.
While there are many variables that can impact the surface finish of a part, the 3 key variables, time, pressure, and pre-finish, all play a critical role in the ultimate outcome of the part. Changing any one of these variables could result in dramatically different results, which is why it’s important to understand what they are and how they work together to achieve the desired surface finish.
Roller burnishing is a quick and effective method for achieving smooth surface finishes on metal work pieces. With a variety of burnishing tools on the market, it can be challenging to determine which will work best for a specific application.
From forklifts to land excavators, valves are used to regulate the flow of fluid through the machine, impacting the functionality of the machinery. For these large pieces of equipment to handle fine movements and adjustments, it’s important that the grooves and lands inside of the valve body are cut precisely.
Electric motors are used in a wide variety of applications, from lawn tools to automobiles. When looking at laminated motors, tight manufacturing tolerances are ideal for producing higher efficiency products. Roller burnishing can be used to set the air gap in lamination stacks and eliminate the need for grinding and honing.
Mechanical joining is a quick and easy process for creating leak free joints between tubular products and fittings, when compared to welding or brazing operations. This makes it well suited for high vibration and high-pressure applications like aerospace and heavy equipment.
Surface finish plays a critical role in determining the performance and longevity of a part. However, it’s important to understand what materials can be burnished and how material impacts the finish that can be achieved.
While traditional finishing methods are effective, in many cases, these processes require multiple operations and set-ups to achieve the desired finish. Burnishing is an effective and efficient alternative that often eliminates the need for secondary processes entirely.
Rotors or shafts used in steam and gas turbines, turbo generators and compressors, or any large motor, have to work within set standards for runout to ensure efficient and safe operation. If excessive runout is not eliminated during the manufacturing process, the motor would have to be disassembled and the shaft reworked. This can be a time consuming and costly process and one the motor manufacturer would want to avoid.
