Cleaning Motorcycle Parts

Question: I have a small vibratory tumbler (designed for gun casings). I would like to use it to clean and polish ... Read More

Auto Parts Polishing

Question: I am interested in starting a metal polishing business mainly for car parts. I am wondering if your wet tumblers ... Read More

Increasing Tumbling Abrasiveness

There are a number of strategies that can be used to increase the abrasiveness of both barrel and vibratory tumbling operations. ... Read More

Precision Aluminum Deburring

Choosing Tumbling Media

Choosing to proper tumbling media for a specific part can be challenging enough. When you are producing a variety of parts, ... Read More

Pre-Anodized Machined Aluminum

Machined Aluminum Anodizing is an electrochemical process where a very thin portion of the surface of the metal is converted into ... Read More

Brass Cartridge Polishing

As a follow-up to a previous post, we continue to see lots of success with brass cartridge polishing for reloading. These ... Read More

Deflashing PVC Plastic

Machining or cutting PVC plastic (as well as many other types of plastic) often creates flashing, sharp edges and leaves excess ... 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

Grinding & Polishing Steel

The two pictures below show both the handle area and the blade point on a steel part that has been prepared ... Read More

Polishing Plastic Parts

Plastic (acrylic) polishing often involves a multi-step process to remove machine marks, get a smooth finish and then brighten the part. ... Read More

Extruded and Cut Aluminum Tube

Extruded and Cut Aluminum Tube The picture above shows an extruded and cut aluminum tube that requires both deburring and ... Read More

Pewter Polishing – Vibratory Tumbling

Many small-run, decorative pewter manufacturers either hand polish or have smaller equipment for polishing cast pewter parts. While we have detailed ... Read More

Polishing Delrin, Nylon and Teflon

Here is a link to a terrific exchange on our ShopTalk Forum about removing machine marks, deflashing and then polishing delrin, ... Read More

Cleaning Heat Treat Scale

Heat treating steel parts is often specified to change the physical properties of the metal. The extreme heating and subsequent cooling ... Read More

Water Spots on Copper

Copper is a soft metal that is easily oxidized and stained (note previous post re: green color of Statue of Liberty). ... Read More

Deflashing Polypropylene Plastic

The objective is to remove flashing, sharp edges, machining marks and rough surfaces from a polypropylene plastic part. This material is ... Read More

Cleaning Phosphor Bronze

Bronze is primarily a metal alloy of copper and tin. The tin adds hardness to the copper and increases durability. Phosphor ... Read More

Polishing Pewter

Molded pewter, rough surface finish Pewter parts can be cast into a large variety of shapes. The casting process often results ... Read More

Smooth Aluminum Finish

Aluminum is a relatively soft metal that is easily nicked, scratched and damaged by handling – both during the part manufacturing ... Read More

Steel – 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

Removing Machine Marks

Machining aluminum parts to create the specified dimensions and geometry of the part leaves light etching, ‘swirls’ and general machine marks ... Read More

Aluminum Edge Rounding

Deburring and edge rounding often go together. Aluminum is generally tumbled with less abrasive and lighter Plastic and Synthetic media ... Read More

Polishing Hardened Steel

The process of hardening steel using heat treatments, annealing and quenching can produce scale and blackening on the surface. In addition ... Read More

Clean & Polish Steel Tubes

Cutting steel tubing can produce heavy burrs on the edges and if done wet can lead to rusting on the surface ... Read More

vibratory tumbling

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