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From www.kevincaron.com - Artist Kevin Caron shows how to use surface preparation disks to get a polished surface on metal ....
Kevin Caron is holding a "nasty old" piece of 1/8" aluminum plate. He wants to show how you can get rid of scratches and grrr marks using a surface preparation disk.
Surface prep disks do a great job to take out little scratches and give your metal a polished finish. You can use them to give your entire piece to the finish you want, then do your welding. Then you can just come back and polish the areas affected by welding.
Kevin Caron puts on his safety equipment and fires up his 4-1/2" Milwaukee angle grinder to show what one of these prep disks can do.
He sweeps the surface preparation disk across half of the metal, then grinds parallel to that first pass. The grinding takes less than a minute. When he's done, the metal he's ground is shiny enough to see a reflection in it.
If you want your metal even shinier, you can take another pass or two or maybe get a slightly different grit or a different weight disk. The cool thing is that these surface preparation disks don't remove metal or leave grrr marks. You don't have to go back and fix more damage that you made.
Some viewers may be saying, "OK, Kevin, come on. That's a nice soft piece of aluminum. How about a rusty nasty old railroad spike?"
Kevin Caron spends a little more than 2-1/2" minutes grinding on a spike. When he's done, you can his pencil reflected in the metal. The prep disk had a little trouble getting down into the little pits in this spike, which is why he had to do a few passes in different directions, but boy, it got almost a mirror finish on a railroad spike!
Kevin Caron would love to be able to show you the name of the disk, but the mounting disk is hiding it. But he show that it almost looks like a really, really tight sponge that's a little bit soft and squishy.
He does warn viewers, though, that there is another disk that is red and looks somewhat similar. He shows the differences between the surface preparation disk and a stripper disk. The stripper disk is something entirely different. It will remove mill scale and paint, but it won't polish. That's the difference between these two red disks. You can get them both at your local welding supply and online.
Kevin Caron hopes you enjoyed watching this video and asks viewers to hit that subscribe button as well as the notification bell in the upper corner. He's ready to go back to work, so you have time to visit www.kevincaron.com to see more how to videos and his amazing sculpture.
Well, before you go, you might want to stick around for another moment to see Kevin Caron consider some other uses for the disks ... or maybe not ....
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Artist Kevin Caron has been sculpting full time since 2006. See - and hear - his amazing metal and large format 3D-printed sculptures, which are found in public and private places coast-to-coast and online at www.kevincaron.com.
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5 окт 2024
