Draft:Buffing compound
Buffing Compound
Buffing compounds are an abrasive compound composed of polishing powder blended to form a cake or bar with waxes and fats. They are used to smooth metals and plastics in many industries to give a clean and polished finish and improve the polishing and buffing wheel's effectiveness.
The compounds come in a variety of colors, depending on their abrasiveness and uses.
The black compound is the most, typically using emery as its abrasive. This type of compound is used as a first step in the polishing process of materials that have deep scratches or rough surfaces, as it smooths these scratches with its tough abrasive.
The gray compound is an aggressive, first step, cutting compound designed for non ferrous metals. The grey buffing compound is similar to the black in terms of its aggressiveness but formulated to excel on aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, and tin and other non ferrous metals.
The green compound is best for buffing brass, copper, iron, nickel, platinum, and steel. However, it is particularly effective with stainless steel and aluminum.
The brown compound is one of the most popular due to its mild cutting action while providing a nice shine as well. Primarily, the bar is used as a cut bar on aluminum, brass, copper, or other soft metals both ferrous and non ferrous.
The pink compound is for Acrylic & Plastics The bar itself is a mild cut, high polishing bar that produces one of the finest finishes for acrylics and plastics.
The blue compound is also for Acrylic & Plastics Polishing. The compound is also a mild cut, producing fine finishes for acrylics and plastics. The compound is excellent for edge finishing of acrylic sheeting or restoring a clean finish to solid plastics.
The red compound is designed for precious metals. “Jewelers” polishing is an ultra fine compound designed for work on the most sensitive materials, but including soft non ferrous such as brass or copper as well as the precious metals such as silver and gold. Jewelers red rouge should be used as a final step in polishing as it has no capacity to cut.
The white compound is one of the most common polishing compounds due to its versatility. White rouge can be used for achieving an extremely high luster finish on hard metal surfaces as well as removing extremely minor imperfections on soft metals. It is a finishing compound designed to provide very light cutting edge to softer metals and a brilliant shine to harder metals. The bar can also be used on both ferrous metals, non ferrous metals or plastics.
