All Around The Wrekin: January 2013

Monday, 21 January 2013

Small barrel polishers offer an efficient, clean method of polishing small articles for the hobbyist jeweller. Polishing by hand using tradi...

The drums used by barrel polishers are commonly made from either plastic or rubber: Plastic Plastic drum lids will be easier to push on an...

To aid with cleaning, a small amount of barrelling compound should be added to the water. This is a type of cleaner specifically designed to...

Steel shot is comprised of differently sized tiny shapes, usually a mixture of balls, pins, and rods. The pins are especially useful for pol...

Alternative names for barrel polishers include: jewellery tumblers, lapidary tumblers, stone tumblers, or rotary tumblers. A barrel polish...

The surface of the object to be polished should be pickled to clean it, and the pickle rinsed off. All surface scratches should also be remo...

Mallets should be used in place of hammers when it is important that the metal should not be marked or thinned during the work process. W...

Ball Peen This common type (also known as a Jobbing hammer) has two faces: one flat circular face, and one hemispherical face used for sprea...

Radial bristle discs are manufactured from a flexible material mounted onto a spindle, and are intended for use in rotary hand tools. The br...

Available grades Grade Colour 36 grit Brown 50 grit Green 80 grit Yellow 120 grit White 220 grit Red 400 grit Blue 600 grit (Pumice...