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Equipment Boards => Visionary => Topic started by: scotts33 on November 12, 2010, 10:41:47 PM
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I ask this of Jason from time to time and seem to lose it in my e-mail. I'd also suppose others would like this information. Verbatim from the horses mouth. How Visionary gets to their OOB surfaces.
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In our current line, for the balls that are 2,000 abralon, they go through our automatic sander using a burgundy scotch brite pad, then go through 1,000 abralon and then 2,000 abralon. 1,000 abralon balls go through the same process without the 2,000 abralon step.
Polished balls go straight from the burgundy scotch brite pad into the industrial polishing machine which uses a buffing compound to bring it up to 1500 polish.
The matte surface balls go from the burgundy pad to whatever the final surface is. So, if it is 1,000 matte it goes from the burgundy pad to a light grey pad on a spinner with plenty of water.
Older balls used to go through a similar process, but we also used sandpaper. So if the finish said sanded 320, than it used a 3m wet/dry sandpaper on a spinner with water.
Hope this helps,
Jason
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Scott
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Yes,
Maroon/Burgundy ScotchBrite Pads are the 7447 designator. Here is a grit/grading comparison with various ScotchBrite and Mirlon designators:
US ANSI Abralon
Micron US CAMI FEPA 'P' JAPAN JIS Non-Woven Scuff Pads
500 36 36 36
430 40
425 40
350 50 40
336 50
300 50
270 60 60
250 60
210 70
200 80
192 80
177 80
162 100
149 90
140 100
125 120 100
116 120 ` 3M SB Tan 7440
100 150 120
93 150
82 180 180 150
68 220 220 180 3M SB Dk Gray 7446
60 240 240
52 240 280 280 3M SB Brown 6444
46 320 320
42 280
40 360 360 Mirlon VF Red
35 320 400 400 3M SB Maroon 7447
30 500
28 360 500
26 600 600
24 400
22 800 700
20 500
18 1000 800
16 600 1200 1000 3M SB Green 6448
14
12 800 1500 1200 3M SB Gray 7448 Mirlon UF Gray
10 1000 2000 1500 3M SB Gold 7745
8 2500 2000 Mirlon MF Gold
7 2500
6 1200 3000 3M SB White 7445
5
4
3 1500 4000
2
1
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