Carbide Burrs (also referred to as Rotary Burrs) bring cutting, shaping, grinding but for the removing sharp edges, burrs and excess material (deburring).
1. What material can Carbide Burrs provide on?
Carbide burrs works extremely well on many materials. Metals including steel, aluminum and cast iron, all types of wood, acrylics, fibreglass and plastics. When utilized on soft metals for example gold, platinum and silver, carbide burrs are excellent because they will last a long time without chipping or breaking.
Steel, Carbon Steel & Stainless-steel
Cast Iron
Aluminium
Titanium
Cobalt
Nickel
Gold, Platinum & Silver
Ceramics
Fibreglass
Plastic, Graphite Reinforced Plastic (CRP), Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GRP)
Brass, Copper & Bronze
Zinc
Wood
Different cuts of carbide burrs will likely be suitable to specific materials, understand the next point below to discover more regarding different cuts.
What can You have Carbide Burrs In?
Ideally carbide burrs are widely-used in Air Tools i.e Die Grinders, Pneumatic rotary tools as well as speed engravers. Micro Motors, Pendant Drills, Flexible Shafts, and hobby rotary tools like a Dremel.
Always employ a handpiece that runs true i.e without having wobble.
Who Uses Carbide Burrs?
Carbide burrs are traditionally used for metalwork, tool making, engineering, model engineering, wood carving, jewellery making, welding, chamferring, casting, deburring, grinding, cylinder head porting and sculpting. And they are employed in the aerospace, automotive, dental, metal sculpting, and metal smith industries to name just a few.
2. Carbide Burrs Commonly Can be found in Two Cuts; Single Cut and Double Cut (Diamond Cut)
Single cut (one flute) carbide burrs possess a right handed (Up cut) spiral flute. These tend to be in combination with stainless-steel, hardened steel, copper, iron, and ferrous metals and will remove material quickly which has a smooth finish. Use for heavy stock removal, milling, deburring and cleaning.
Heavy elimination of material
Milling
Deburring
Cleaning
Creates long chips
Double cut carbide burrs tend to be used on ferrous and non ferrous metals, aluminium, soft steel and for all non-metal materials such as plastics and wood. They’ve got more cutting edges and can remove material faster. Double cut are now and again referrred to as Diamond Cut or Cross Cut (2 flutes cut across the other) leaves a smoother finish than single cut because of producing smaller chips because they cut away the information. Use for medium-light stock removal, deburring, finishing and cleaning. A double cut carbide burr is regarded as the popular cut and will help you through most applications.
Medium- light removal of material
Deburring
Fine finishing
Cleaning
Smooth finish
Creates small chips
3. What Speed or RPM should you use your Carbide Burrs?
The velocity at which you use your carbide bur in your rotary tool is determined by the pad you’ve it on and also the contour being produced yet it’s safe to say you don’t need to exceed speeds of 35,000 RPM.
4. Don’t Apply An excessive amount of Pressure
Like all drill bits and burrs, let the burr perform the work and apply simply a little pressure otherwise the cutting edges of the flutes will chip away or become smooth too soon, minimizing the life of your burr.
5. Carbide Burrs are Harder Than HSS Burrs
Our Carbide Burrs are machine ground from your specially chosen grade of carbide. Due to extreme hardness in the Tungsten Carbide they could be applied to far more demanding jobs than HSS (High-speed Steel).
Carbide Burrs also perform better at higher temperatures than HSS in order to run them hotter, as well as for longer.
HSS burrs are going to soften at higher temperatures so carbide is definitely a better option for lengthy term performance.
What Are The Benefits of Tungsten Carbide Burrs?
Durability
Use for lengthy production runs
High stock removal
Suitable for using on many hard and hard materials
Ideal for Deburring, finishing, carving, shaping and smoothing welds, moulds, dies and forgings
6. Keep The Carbide Burr On the go
When utilizing your carbide burr never keep it still for too much time since this minimizes the burr from digging and jabbing into the material causing unsightly marks and roughness.
End on an ‘up’ stroke for the smoother finish on your work.
Stay Safe:
Always make sure your burr shank is well inserted into your collet and clamped down tightly
Keep pressure light and the bur moving, focusing on the very best material first
Keep your work is secured tightly in your workbench
Don’t snag or jam your burr into your work
Wear eye protection at the very least, but better yet use a full shield for your face
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