Main features and benefits:
Fast and heavy abrasive action, high unloading properties, extremely long life, quick to change.
For removal, blending, surface preparation and finishing of larger areas, the hook and loop attachment system safely secures larger diameter discs to multiple tools . Compared to smaller quick change discs, full surface treatments of larger workpieces can be completed with less changeover, and product or operator fatigue .
Best for flat and moderately contoured surfaces, materials available are well suited for a variety of industrial applications.
- Controlled Material Removal: Unlike aggressive grinding wheels, surface conditioning discs remove surface imperfections, rust, or coatings without significantly altering the dimensions or geometry of the workpiece.
- Heat Dissipation & Loading Resistance: The open nylon web structure promotes airflow, which reduces heat buildup that can cause warping or discoloration. This design also resists "loading" (clogging from debris), extending the disc's life.
- Conformability: The flexible nature of non-woven material allows the disc to conform to irregular, contoured, or rounded surfaces, reaching areas that rigid abrasives cannot without gouging or undercutting the base material.
- Process Efficiency: High-performance discs (like those from 3M) can often combine blending and finishing into a single step, reducing the total number of process stages required to achieve a professional finish.
- Consistent, Uniform Finish: Abrasive grains are distributed evenly throughout the entire web, so as the fibers wear away, new sharp minerals are continuously exposed. This ensures a uniform scratch pattern from the beginning to the end of the disc's life.
- Enhanced Safety: These discs typically generate less noise and vibration than traditional abrasives, reducing operator fatigue. Unlike wire wheels, they also lack wire elements that can break off and cause injury
Recommended applications:
Plastic products, machinery for the chemical and food industries (manufacture and maintenance), stainless steel furniture, the automotive and railway industries, shipbuilding, the aeronautical industry, propellers and jet engines, stainless steel structural work.
Work surfaces:
Steel, stainless steel, aluminium, titanium and alloys, fibre glass, plastic and glass fibre.
