Gulf States Saw & Machinery Co., Inc. provides the most reliable dry metal machines. Our customers receive a range dry metal machines to enhance the safety and reliability of their metalworking applications.

Flummoxed by flat parts? Flat parts such as washers present one of the toughest challenges for centrifugal barrel finishing. The parts tend to wick together or stick to the side of the barrel, so only one side gets deburred. The solution is to add glass bead blasting media to the centrifugal barrel finishing process. The beads coat the parts so they can no longer stick to the barrel or each other. Glass beads also work well for parts that tend to cup together.

Our dry machines allow for more efficient and uniform finishing in industries like woodworking, metalworking and other composites. We distribute our products to all North American industries, in an effort help them achieve the highest quality finish.

You will enjoy a longer service life, reduced costs and less frequent maintenance of finishing or deburring with our machines.

What is finish engineering

These machines are designed for multi-shift and seven-day-per week operations. This machine is designed for the highest production requirements to enable you to meet large production demands.

No matter how many steps are involved in your process each step must take place separately. Also, polishing and deburring cannot be done at the same time. Instead, polish first and deburr second. If more steps are required, they must be done in ascending order. Polishing and deburring should be done first.

What is finish engineering
Rotational Speed

Rotational Speed

Top/bottom machines process both top and base surfaces in one pass. Every inch of every piece is processed exactly the exact same across 100% of the machine width.

The correct tumbling media is critical for centrifugal bar finishing. The wrong media and particularly the wrong geometries can make it twice as long to finish a part. When appropriate, cones or cylindricals are used for tumbling media. This can dramatically slow down processing times.

Material Finish Machine Door

Centrifugal barrel finishing systems are industry workhorses and are used with many types of metals, including brass, aluminum, steel, stainless steel, chrome, and titanium. Note that this type of system does not deburr plastic parts, because plastic is too pliable for this process.

There are two options when it comes to choosing a metalworking machine. One is wet and one is dry. Both machines perform the same tasks using different methods. While wet machines use coolant to spread onto the surface, dry machines work without it.

Finishing Garments Machines
Finishing Garments Machines

In a centrifugal tumbling machine, an operator can control the speed of the tumbling. This control allows finer finishing and polishing at lower speeds as well as aggressive deburring, edge smoothing, and edge grinding at higher speeds.

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.

Material Finishing Machine Binding

Tumbler Media is the abrasive for mass finishing. It grinds away burrs and lines on a metallic surface. There are many options for tumbler media.

You can have up to four heads on our machines. We also offer the option of customizing them with rotating brushes, abrasive bands, and oscillating discs depending on your specific application.

Frequently Asked Questions

The law of attraction between positively and negatively charged particles underpins the finishing technique of applying a coating to a metal surface. The paint is usually positively charged, while the support to be painted is negatively charged because it is wired to a strong electric field.

Finishing operations, also known as finishing manufacturing, occur at the end of the manufacturing process, after the part has been formed and secondary processes have been completed.

Finishing mortars and concretes; natural and artificial masonry materials; decorative ceramics; materials and items made of wood, paper, glass, plastic, and metals; and paints and varnishes are the most common finishing materials used in modern construction.