Those who understand machining and machining technology must be familiar with burrs. In the machining process, no matter how advanced and sophisticated the equipment you use, Deburring Guide will be produced along with the product. The reasons for their production vary. Some are due to plastic deformation caused by cutting, some are flashes during casting, forging and other processing, and some are residues after welding and extrusion. These Deburring Guide will have adverse effects on many aspects of parts processing accuracy, assembly accuracy, rework positioning and appearance quality.

What is deburring?

Burrs are a type of defect on the metal surface that may appear as uneven flash at the end of the metal after cold cutting, hot sawing or flame cutting, as well as excess metal squeezed out of the weld during welding operations. The ends of cold-cut products generally also have burrs, and the thickness of the burrs depends on the gap between the blades. Since burrs cannot be removed fundamentally, a certain height of burrs is allowed for general products, but the internal and external burrs of welded pipes must be scraped off. If they are not scraped off, the performance of the parts will be affected. During the processing, every deburring tool helps to obtain the accurate shape of the parts.

What is Automated Deburring?

Automatic deburring is an innovative technology for rounding the edges of machine parts. It rounds hard metals very well and removes excess material, making the production process very smooth.

Benefits of Automated Deburring

  • Automated deburring applications also improve the deburring process and manufacturing process by increasing productivity and removing burrs quickly.
  • Robotic deburring completes all tasks quickly and improves quality compared to manual deburring.
  • Each deburring tool or machine deburrs all edges of machine parts that are difficult to reach with manual deburring.
  • Automated systems make it easy to implement deburring processes.

Why do you need to deburr?

  • Burrs increase the risk of injury to personnel
  • Burrs will accelerate the speed of wear and tear of equipment
  • Burrs hinder further precision machining

Different Types of Burrs

  • Classification by shape
  • Flying edge
  • Sharp burrs
  • Splash

Classification by formation mechanism

  • Poisson burr.
  • Tumbling burrs.
  • Tear burrs form.
  • Cut burr.
  • Hot burrs.

Different Types of deburring

  • Coarse level (hard contact)
  • General grade (soft contact)
  • Fine grade (flexible contact)
  • Ultraprecision level ( accuracy contact)

Most Useable Methods of Deburring

Mechanical Deburring

The use of directly driven deburring tools is a unique feature of mechanical deburring. Targeted internal and external deburring results in burr-free components with rounded or chamfered edges. Brushes, cutters, polishing tools and electroplated tools can all be used for deburring. Special designs also play an important role. Mechanical deburring technology is highly reliable for workpieces with complex shapes.

Manual Deburring

Deburring is a process that removes burrs, sharp and unfinished edges from the surface of a part. Manual deburring is one of the most versatile but time consuming methods. In addition, different types of tools can be used for manual Deburring Guide.

Electrochemical Deburring

Electrochemical deburring is a deburring operation that removes hard metals at high speed but in a safe manner.

Thermal Energy Method

This method is a combination of fuel, oxygen, and heat. Thermal deburring is a great way to remove burrs.

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