Think Differently… and eliminate Honing or Grinding, with Cogsdill Roller Burnishing tools

Detailed Specification

Roller burnishing is a surface finishing technique in which hardened, highly polished steel rollers are brought into pressure contact with a softer piece part. As the pressure generated through the rollers exceeds the yield point of the piece-part material, the surface is plastically deformed by cold flowing of sub-surface material. The result is a mirror-like finish and a tough, work-hardened surface with load-carrying characteristics which make the burnished surface superior to finishes obtained by abrasive metal-removal methods.

A roller burnished surface is smoother and more wear-resistant than an abraded surface of the same profilometer reading. Profilometers measure roughness height. Abrasive finishing processes remove metal by cutting or tearing it away, and while this usually lowers the roughness profile, it leaves sharp projections in the contact plane of the machined surface.

Roller burnishing displaces metal, rather than removing it. Material in microscopic “peaks” on the machined surface is caused to cold flow into the “valleys,” creating a plateau-like profile in which sharpness is reduced or eliminated in the contact plane. A burnished surface is therefore smoother than an abraded surface with the same roughness height measurement. The burnished surface will last longer under working conditions in contact with a mating part.

Cogsdill Roll-a-Finish tools are applied to a wide variety of part configurations, including:

Inside diameters (holes)

Outside diameters (shafts)

Flat surfaces

Tapers

Spherical surfaces and contours

Fillets (radii at shoulders)

Standard Roll-a-Finish tools are available from stock for inside diameters from .187 to 4.000 inches (4.75 to 101.6mm), and for outside diameters from .062 to 2.000 inches (1.57 to 50.8mm). The tools are easily adjustable over a typical range of .040 inch (1.02mm). Special designs are available for larger and smaller diameters, and for tapers, faces, contours, and virtually any part configuration.

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