In recent years, stainless steel has found increasingly wide spread use for innumerable applications. This is surely for the one part due to the extraordinarily positive characteristics of the material. For the other part, however, it is also due to the outstanding surface finish of the products made with this material, which are subject to highest demand on visual appearance.

Semi-finished stainless steel products normally have a high-grade finish. In the finishing process, this surface is clearly subjected to a lot of wear and tear, e.g., by sawing or welding, so that subsequent machining is required to give the product the desired finish. And almost every product is different, requires a different tool and a different working technique. A correct assessment of surface finishing offers a lot of ideas on whether in this process money will be consumed or earned.

Apart from the expensive materials, the work pieces usually enshroud the embodiment of the idea. And by the time the parts are given their final finish, they have already incurred high costs. It therefore makes a difference whether the finish is perfect or not, and whether times is saved by following the correct procedures - for example by the use of a brush grinding head which produces outstanding finish very quickly at the same time eliminating an entire work operation.

Even small saving can add up to appreciable amounts in the end. Problem - Railing and banister manufacturing - How does one get into extremely small angles with the very small radii? Such fillet welds shown below can scarcely be reached with conventional angle or straight grinders.

Solution - Belt grinders and belt grinder and attachments specially designed for this purpose make it possible to reach into the tightest corners, even into those with very small radii.

(Suhner India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. Tel: 080-27831108. Fax: 91-80-27831109. Email: abrasive.in@suhner.com)