Dressing a Wheel with Greaseless Polishing Compound

[Transane]

thats it. I'm ordering some greaseless. I spend countless hours sanding fine contours to get a good polish.

dont know why i didnt think of this a year and a half ago when i started polishing.

[luna4rto]

Great video, I'm restoring straight razors and I polished my first one with buffing wheels today. The process was very long, almost 4 hours, because the compound was flying off most of the time. Do you think that your process could be applied to a regular buffing machine? Thanks in advance, a cool trick is to slow down the machine, I applied the greaseless compounds with a full speed all the time.

[69furball69]

@luna4rto

The best wheels to use are sewn buffs that are kind of stiff; a loose buff is very hard to get compound to stick to unless you have large flanges to hold it together.

You have the key, slow down the machine. On a low power machine with low mass I have let the wheel come up to full speed, shut it off and use the compound as a brake; the momentum is enough to melt a bit of compound onto the wheel. Not ideal but if that is all you have it can work.

[luna4rto]

@69furball69 Thanks for your advice, I'll put into practice the next week, and I'll let you know how it went, have a great day.

[TheLongfords]

yes out of date, no wonder american industry is in the dark ages, look at some of the cars made in that country, i hope the chinese are not watching this.

[kalevraa]

that's a nice machine. do you also use the separate grit/cold glue process? what metal do you use this wheel for?

thanks!

[69furball69]

@kalevraa

Actually we do use a separate glue/grit process but we use melted hide glue and emery grit.

We use these wheels to polish any metal, steel, aluminum and pot metal mostly. A little grease compound must be applied when polishing aluminum to prevent galling.

[kalevraa]

@69furball69 thank you for your reply. i use both a greaseless stick and a hide glue/grit process, and am considering switching to cold glue. i work on hardened carbon steels. there used to be a machine around that sprayed glue/grit mixture onto a rotating wheel/belt; i wonder if any are still around.

i know a lot of metal workers, but you are the only one, apart from myself, who uses setup greaseless wheel process; most of them never heard of it. i wonder why this is so.

[Strop101]

Out of date process my ass, this man just helped me immeasurably! Thanks a ton, Furball!

[TheLongfords]

That is an out of date process,

[69furball69]

Unfortunately corporal punishment is out of date as well.