Gulf States Saw & Machinery Co., Inc. is the world's leader in metal polishing, deburring, and metal parts cleaning and drying. It has been around for over 70 years. Our engineering and field experience can help you solve any problem that may arise today. Gulf States Saw & Machinery Co., Inc. offers a variety of standard and custom-designed units to provide the best solution.
Do you need high-quality dry machine for your application? Gulf States Saw & Machinery Co., Inc. will provide you with the most reliable designs. We will help you determine what you require. We offer a range of dry metal machines along with a variety wet metal and wood machines. No matter how precise or demanding your requirements may be, we build every machine from scratch.
A centrifugal barrel tumbling machine works on the same principle as a Ferris-wheel, but has smaller baskets that are attached to the edges. The centrifugal finishing machine or harperizing systems has 4 barrels. Each one represents a seat in a Ferris wheel. One large flywheel is also included. Each revolution of this flywheel produces one complete rotation for each barrel. The flywheel rotates quickly and produces extremely high centrifugal pressures, up to 15 to 20 times greater than the force of gravity. Under high pressure, the contents slide against each other. The increased pressure allows fast processing of metal parts as well as consistent and smooth finishes.
Centrifugal barrel finishing machines can perform each of these three types of work, also called steps. Depending on surface finishing specifications for your product, not all steps may be necessary. Your process might include a single step, two steps, or three steps.
The speed of the centrifugal barrel tumble machine can be adjusted by the operator. This control allows for finer finishing, polishing and edge smoothing at lower speeds and more aggressive deburring at higher speeds.
You have a number of performance enhancing options for the FC10. The corner stapler attachment allows you to staple up to 10 sheets at one time. Mobility is made easy by the sturdy base on casters. Underwriters Laboratories has certified the FC 10 in Canada and the US.
The FC 10 Automatic Collator stands out as one of today's most versatile collators. It is reliable, easy to use, and interfaces seamlessly with a variety bookmakers, including Gulf States Saw & Machinery Co., Inc. Speeds, and SF2series.
A variety of applications can be achieved with our dry metal machines, including grinding, graining or deburring, finishing, removing oxide, dimensioning, radiusing edges, and dimensioning. We offer both wet and dry machine configurations depending on the materials being processed. Because of the lower levels and coarser grit required for grinding, we recommend dry machines.
A grinding cylinder is a disc or circular for machining by abrasive cutting action or for sharpening your cutting tools .
The 2000-Series machine series is designed for heavier production. They are designed to handle such applications as deburring, slag grinding, calibrating/dimensioning, edge radiusing, paint/surface preparation, finishing/polishing or a combination of these applications.
Built in a heavy duty construction with a smaller footprint designed to accommodate a job shop with various applications such as deburring, dross removal, calibrating/dimensioning, edge radiusing or finishing.
Mass finishing with a centrifugal barrel tumbler can be performed either wet or dry. Wet processes use a liquid lubricant, cleaner or abrasive, and dry processes do not. Each of the four barrels is loaded to roughly 50-80% of capacity with the following elements:
The detergent is essential. While you may think the cleaning compound was meant for the metal parts of the tumble media, it is actually necessary for its use. The cleaning compound helps keep pores open in the tumbling medium by providing lubricity. If the pores of the tumbling medium become glazed, cutting will cease to work. The metal parts will become black. The soap was not used to make the parts black.
A centrifugal finishing machine can increase the consistency of quality. Handwork has a maximum acceptance rate of 80%, but a centrifugal bar finisher can deliver much higher acceptance rates. Additionally, the surface finish of a centrifugal barrel finisher is consistent in all directions. It is not like hand polishing.
Finishes are applied at the end of a construction or manufacturing process to form the final surface of an element. They can protect the element they finish from impact, water, frost, corrosion, abrasion, and other elements, as well as be decorative.
The Inovatec Automatic Surface Finishing Machine has a PLC control system that allows you to control the entire surface finishing process. It is a completely automated and labor-saving solution. Suitable for deburring and polishing a large batch of small parts at once.
Metal finishing is the process of altering an object's surface in order to improve its appearance and/or durability. Metal finishing is related to electroplating, which is the electrodeposition of a thin surface coating of metal onto another.