RODA Felt – Unmounted Felt Wheels for Polishing

Unmounted Felt Wheels are used with a polishing compound for fine mirror polishing across a range of industries. Part of the RODA range. Popular by all polishing trades including lapidaries, sculptors, engineers, jewellers, and precision engineers for polishing and lapping on all metals.

The Professional Polishers tool of choice. Over 30 years of experience and knowledge has been used to develop a quality product like no other. Designed and manufactured in the UK alongside polishing specialists, RODA Felt is the market leader in specialist finishing.

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Mounted RODA Felts are made in our UK factory in Wiltshire. If you would like bespoke shapes – just get in touch if you require a different size, bespoke shape, different spindle or harder or softer density.

Felt Density

• Soft- Perfect for polishing
• Medium (Most popular)- Ideal for cutting and polishing operations, this is a good standard felt for most materials (Supplied unless specified otherwise)
• Hard- Perfect for a strong cut
• Hardened (10% extra cost)- Standard felt is treated to make it hard and less flexible. It gives you more cut and therefore particularly suits harder metals. Shaped felts are more likely to keep their shape when hardened – Please contact us if you require this product.

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How to achieve the perfect finish with RODA Felt and Diamond Compound

1. Prior to polishing make sure you have gone up to 12000 or finer with wet and dry or RODA NyWheels for best results.

2. Insert your mounted RODA felt into a polishing machine – e.g. eneksa/micromotor.

3. Squeeze a pea sized amount of diamond compound onto your workpiece (when working with diamond compound usually start with a coarse grit like 20 microns and work up to a finer grit).

4. Then work the felt into the paste – a spray of lapping fluid will help to lubricate.

5. Keep the felt moving, wipe clean with solvent spray and a lint free polishing cloth.

6. Assess the finish and then move to a finer grade of diamond paste if required.

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Applications for RODA Felt Wheels:

Our Felt Wheels are a staple tool for those in the polishing trades.

• Mould Tool making
• High gloss finishing
• Polishing with a compound. (Felt acts a carrier)

Benefits Of Using RODA Unmounted Felt Wheels:

When used with a polishing compound like diamond compound, these felt wheels produce a reflective mirror finish.

• Great for polishing metals. i.e tool steel, steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper, gold, silver and most other metals
• Creates a brilliant gloss finish
• Fast results vs hand polishing
• Consistent finish vs hand polishing
• Perfect for any size job
• Stock available for next day delivery
• Excellent carrier for compounds

Best Features of RODA Unmounted Felt Wheels:

RODA Felt Wheels are made to order in our UK Factory to meet your polishing needs.

• Available in hard, medium and soft felt, as well as chemically hardened.
  • Hard/Medium density felts are most often used with cutting compounds in the pre-polishing stage. They offer more cut and may therefore be better suited to harder metals such as steel
  • Soft/Medium density felts are normally used with polishing compound for final finishing
• 6 diameters available:
  • 50mm
  • 75mm
  • 100mm
  • 150mm
  • 200mm
  • 250mm
• 5 thicknesses available:
  • 12mm
  • 20mm
  • 25mm
  • 40mm
  • 50mm
• Made in house in the UK
• High Quality

Suitable Materials:

Felt Polishing Wheels are perfect for polishing metals, as well as other materials.

• Metals – tool steel, steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper, gold, silver and most other metals
• Glass
• For plastics, consider felt flap wheels

RODA Felt Wheels recommended use with:

Unmounted Felt Wheels need to be mounted onto a suitable taper/pigtail in order to be used with a polishing machine.

• Once mounted, RODA Felts will suit a pendant motor, micromotor, air tool or hobby tool, as well as Bench Polishers/Grinders  – See our range of machines here.
• Mandrels, Tapers & Pigtails available here.
• All tools vary, therefore we recommend checking which spindle your particular tool takes.
• Compounds we recommend: Diamond Compound, Lea compound bars, Menzerna Polishing and Cutting, Dialux, Simichrome.
• For the best results you need to prepare the metal first so the surface is flat and smooth, the polishing process will only finish as good as the pre-polish.

Relevant industries using RODA Unmounted Felt Wheels:

Many industries choose RODA Felt Wheels to help them achieve their polishing goals, such as:

• Mould Tool & Dies
• Automotive
• Aerospace
• Oil & Gas
• Defence
• Fabrication
• Metalwork
• Dental
• Medical
• Jewellery
• Silversmiths

 

For more information about our RODA Range give us a call.