Carborundum Abrasives for the Industrial Market
Carborundum Abrasives for the Industrial Market
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Flap Wheel Sanding

Description of Flap Wheel Sanding

 

Flap Wheels are versatile, high-performance abrasive tools for grinding, deburring, blending, cleaning, and finishing hard and soft metals such as aluminum and steel, rubber, plastics, and hard woods. Ideal for flat or contoured shapes, these wheels are a superior, low-cost substitute for wire brushes, abrasive set-up wheels, buffs, and abrasive impregnated fibrous and plastic wheels on a wide range of maintenance, repair, and production operations, including machine shop and welding applications.

 

Fabricated by mounting abrasive cloth rectangles around a center hub, the tightly-packed pieces form the spokes of the wheel. Used on stationary or portable sanders, the flap wheel design produces a controlled, resilient grinding action that minimizes the possibility of flattening, gouging, or causing other surface deformities. As the flap wheel wears, a fresh abrasive area is exposed to the work surface, resulting in an extremely uniform finish.  Flap wheels can be readily shaped to fit contours.

 

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Related Products

  • Flap Wheels and Accessories
  
  • Surface Finishing Products
    

 

 

Typical Machines

  • ARO            
  • Black and Decker  
  • Blue Dart
  • Chicago Pneumatic

 
  • Dynabrade      
  • Ingersoll Rand 
  • Kodak

 
  • Milwaukee
  • Rockwell
  • Sioux

 

 

 

Typical Industries

  • Aircraft Manufacturing
  • Engines Manufacturing
  • Assembly and Tool Room
  • Furniture
  
  • Manufacturing of Sporting Goods
  • Pot and Pan Manufacturing
  • Tool and Die
  
  • Nuclear Power
  • Valves Manufacturing
  • Food and Dairy Equipment Manufacturing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Industrial Engineering Applications

Acrylics, fiberglass, plastic, rubber blending of surface imperfections

  • Fine blending and polishing

  • Removing heavy flash and machine markes

  • Removing light flash and machine marks

Aluminum and other nonferrous metals

  • Applying heavy scratch patterns

  • Applying light scratch patterns

  • Blending out heavy machine marks or burrs

  • Blending surface imperfections or burrs

  • Blending out light machine marks

  • Removing flash and parting lines

 

Ceramics and glass

Steel

  • Applying heavy scratch patterns

  • Applying light scratch patterns

  • Blending out heavy machine marks or burrs

  • Blending out light machine marks or burrs

  • Blending stainless steel to #4 finish

  • Polishing turbo jet blades

  • Preparing surface for painting

  • Removing scale, rust and pit marks

 

Titanium

Wood (Soft or Hard)

  • Edge breaking

  • Mold sanding

Very hard alloys (Hasteloy, Inconel, Stellite, Waspalloy)