Tube polishing does not have to be expensive

A Surtech Surface Technology Products product story

Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Aug 20, 2004

Not all tube polishing requires heavy duty machine design and fully automatic operation as a budget price centreless abrasive belt grinding machine has the same controls as more expensive machines.

Not all tube polishing requires heavy duty machine design and fully automatic operation.

Tubular fabricators who only want to use the tube polishers intermittently can now use a newly designed machine from Surtech to polish tube from 10mm to 100mm diameter and from 150mm to 6000mm length as long as the correct conveyor system is fitted.

Tube manufacturers, tube stockists and subcontractors can polish tube from 10mm to 80mm in shift work as long as the tube weight does not exceed 20kg and the correct conveyor system is fitted.

Model 504 BC is a budget price centreless abrasive belt grinding machine that has the same controls as machines costing several times more.

It consists of a vertical abrasive belt head with a 4HP motor and a motorised feed control unit.

The abrasive belt size is 75mm x 2500mm.

Contact wheels can be chosen for aggresive grinding with high stock removal rates or for fine finishing to specified CLA values.

The feed unit has controls for diameter setting, contact pressure setting and feed speed setting.

Short tubes up to approx.

1000mm length can be fed manually into the machine, although it is advisable to fit a short guide on the infeed and outfeed sides.

Longer tubes up to 6000mm require optional conveyor systems which are available in many designs depending the lenght and weight of the tube and the degree of automation that is required.

Model 504 BC is mostly used as a single head machine and for dry operation.

Surtech can also offer a very similar machine with twin heads and for wet operation.