MECHANICAL LAPPING, GRINDING, & POLISHING PROCESS 

UKAM Industrial Superhard Tools offers one of the largest range of diamond lapping equipment from 6" to 24". Used in Industry and R & D. Including, vertical, horizontal, large, and small table top machines. Designed for lapping, grinding, and polishing just about any type of material. Designed coarse & fine grinding and polishing of high hardness materials including metals, ceramics, refractories, cement, and petrographic thin sections. As well as full range of optical materials, such as: Bk7, Fused Silica, Zeroder, Quartz, Soda Lime Glass, Yag, Sapphire, and Many Other Materials

Other Lapping & Polishing Products:   Metal Bond Diamond Discs  -  Resin Bond Diamond Discs  -  Pre-Polishing Strips  -  Polishing Discs  -  Lapping Equipment

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APPLICATION: Advanced Materials Ultra Hard & Brittle Materials Glass, & Quartz Optical Materials Composites  Natural Stone Metals

INDUSTRIES USED IN: Automotive / Diesel Aerospace Compressor & Valve Pumps Tool & Die Bearings Precision Optics Precious & Semi Precious Stone

Technical Ceramics Data Storage Semiconductor Medical Devices Specially Materials / Products Mechanical Seals Composites Glass Stone Metallography

CONSUMABLES: 

UKAM Industrial Superhard Tools produces diamond grinding, polishing discs and consumables for large variety of applications, industries, lapping, grinding & polishing machines. Metal & Resin Bond Diamond Discs are available from as coarse as 40 grit to fine as 1 micron. All Diamond Discs are interchangeable and come with either magnetic or adhesive backing. Other consumables such as diamond powder, cerium oxide, alumina powder, diamond compounds, diamond polishing coolant & diamond films are available upon request.

SMART CUT™ Diamond Discs are designed for fine and coarse grinding/polishing  of high hardness materials such as metals, ceramics, refractories, cement, geological rocks, glass, optics, composites, and many other materials 35 and up Rockwell C scale of hardness. Only the highest quality diamonds and raw material is used in manufacturing process.

The highest quality standards and consistency are maintained using sophisticated measurement and inspection equipment. Please inquire, we will be happy to recommend the right equipment, consumables, & process for your application. 

Whatever your goal or objective UKAM Industrial Superhard Tools can help you optimize your Diamond Lapping, Grinding, & Polishing operation to ultimate level of efficiency.  

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MECHANICAL LAPPING, GRINDING, & POLISHING PROCESS

CAN BE USED FOR ALMOST ANY APPLICATION

As a essential part of finishing process, SMART CUT™ Lapping, Grinding, & Polishing machines / equipment play a major role in establishing the final dimensional and surface characteristics for many industrial parts. Lapping operation is used for many work materials including glass, ceramic, plastic, metals and their alloys, sintered materials, stellite, ferrite, copper, cast iron, steel etc.

Lapping, Grinding, & Polishing is primarily considered to be a three-body abrasive mechanism due to the fact that it uses free abrasive grains that can roll or slide between the work piece surface and the lapping plate, although some grains become embedded in the lap leading to two-body abrasion. Lapping is a loose abrasive machining process that combines abrasive particles within an oil or aqueous medium depending on the material being finished. Fine abrasive is applied, continuously or at specific intervals, to a work surface to form an abrasive film between the plate and the parts to be lapped or polished. 

Each abrasive grain used for lapping has sharp irregular shapes and when a relative motion is induced and pressure applied, the sharp edges of the grains are forced into the work piece material. Each loose abrasive particle acts as a microscopic cutting tool that either makes an indentation or causes the material to cut away very small particles. Even though the abrasive grains are irregular in size and shape, they are used in large quantities and thus a cutting action takes place continuously over the entire surface in contact.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAPPING, GRINDING, & POLISHING?

Lapping, Grinding, & Polishing processes are very similar. Main differences lie on the end users objectives. Such as removing a certain amount of material or removing scratches and micro cracks caused by prior machining operations. Usually the same machine can be used for all three operations. Some of the major differences include the type and diamond mesh size of diamond discs used, type and size of abrasives used and their holding method.  Other factors include RPM’s (speed) used and pressure applied to material workpiece.

Another important difference between lapping and more finer polishing is the composition of diamond disc backing plate. Typically cast iron is used as a backing plate for lapping. Backing plates made from aluminum, bronze, or composites are more frequently used for polishing.  Find out more >>>

UKAM Industrial Superhard Tools   Division of LEL Diamond Tools International, Inc.

28231 Avenue Crocker, Unit 80  Valencia, CA 91355  Phone: (661) 257-2288  Fax: (661) 257-3833

e-mail: lel@ukam.com