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Polishing of small 304 stainless steel pressed components



 

Dear Sirs,

We manufacture small components made of 304 Stainless steel.Our components are manufactured by punching and die forming process. We need to polish these components and get a mirror polish. Please guide me for polishing these components. At present we are electropolishing these components. But because these components are very small ( 5 mm cu ) in size handling is very difficult during polishing.The thickness of the stainless steel shim we use ranges from 0.2 mm to 0.35 mm .

Please let me know

1. Type of polishing I am doing is correct? I have to get a mirror polish

2. Any other type of polish is possible? I have tried centrifugal , vibratory polish & results were not encouraging , Buffing is very difficult.

Thank you for your valuable guidance,

Dr. Hiten Asher
- Calicut, India



Dear Sir,

The type of polishing that would suit your kind of job would be vibratory polish. Your inquiry states that you have tried this option. May be you are not using the required media and chemicals for polishing. The same finish (mirror finish) is required by MINT (where coins are made), and they are using the same process and the material is also SS.

Rishi Dewan
- Ghaziabad, U.P., India




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