Different Types of Buffing Wheels You Need to Know

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DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUFFING WHEELS YOU NEED TO KNOW
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WHAT IS A BUFFING WHEEL?
Buffing wheels are an abrasive wheel that carries
polishing compound. These compounds give
smoothness and polish metal surfaces. There are
different types of buffing compounds. The wheel
spins after the compound are applied to the
buffing wheel. You need to continue applying the
polishing compound to give surface or jewelry
smoothness and a high shine.
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUFFING WHEELS
1. COTTON AND MUSLIN BUFFS
The soft cotton muslin buffs are made of cotton,
commonly used for a final polish with buffing
rouge. Muslin buffs, like chamois or cotton
flannel buffs, are similar to other cotton buffs
and are much more effective.
2. FELT BUFFS
Felt buffs are made of wool fabric, It is thick
and strongly compressed. The medium toughness of
felt buff wheels is ideal for all polishing and
buffing processes. These buffs are suitable with
any buffing compound for cutting or polishing.
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3. SATIN/MATTE BUFFS
Satin and Matte finish buff is made from
synthetic or nylon fibers attached with an
abrasive buffing wheel material such as silicon
carbide or aluminum oxide. Matte buffs are ideal
to get a beautiful polished look on watch bands
and other workpieces.
4. ALUMINUM OXIDE FLAP WHEELS
Generally, all polishing tools combine the
utilization of micro-abrasives, abrasive
compounds, or pastes for roughing, polishing, and
protecting, wool berets and sponges to perform
the work. In general, polishing work consists of
subsequent steps
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5. SILICON CARBIDE WHEELS
These silicon carbide wheels are ideal for light
grinding, deburring, smoothing, and cleaning of
all non-ferrous metals, as well as for
non-metallic materials such as glass.
6. NYLON AND WIRE WHEELS AND BRUSHES
The nylon wire wheels are perfect for polishing
buffing wheels for brushing, deburring and
smoothing rough surfaces. These buffing wheels
are easy to mount and unmount with mandrels.
Other than nylon these wire wheels and brushes
are also composed of brass and steel bristles.
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