RODA Felt – Mounted Felt Wheels for Polishing
Mounted Felt Wheels are used with a polishing compound for fine mirror polishing across a range of industries. Popular in the precision engineering, mould tool making, medical and jewellery industries.
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.
Max RPM:
- <10mm Thickness: 13,000
- 10mm Thickness: 5,000
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.
Options Available:
Felt Density
- Soft- Perfect for polishing
- Medium- 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- 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.
Shapes
- Other shapes available – Bobs, Cones, Bullnose, Points, Balls, Trapeze and also bespoke shapes are all available. Here at Moleroda we offer low volume, low cost, traceable, fast delivery and high quality products. We can mount felt down to 3.5mm diameter and in all different shapes.
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.
Applications for RODA Mounted Felt Wheels:
- Mould Tool making
- Polishing with a compound. (Felt is just a carrier)
- High gloss finishing
Benefits Of Using RODA Mounted Felt Wheels:
- Great for polishing tool steel, steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper, gold, silver and most other metals
- Creates a bright reflective mirror 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 Mounted Felt Wheels:
- Available in hard, medium and soft felt
- 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
- 4 diameters available 22/25/30/40mm
- 3 thicknesses available 3/6/10mm
- Available on 2.35mm or 3mm spindle
- Made in house in the UK
- High Quality
Suitable Materials:
- Metals – tool steel, steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper, gold, silver and most other metals
- Glass
- For plastics, consider Felt Flap Wheels
RODA Mounted Felt Wheels recommended use with:
- RODA Felts will suit a pendant motor, micromotor, air tool or hobby tool. – See our range of machines here.
- All tools vary, therefore we recommend checking which spindle your particular tool takes.
- Compounds we recommend: Lea compound bars, Menzerna Polishing and Cutting, Dialux, Diamond Compound, 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.
- Recommended speed:
- for 2.35mm spindled wheels is 13,000 RPM Max
- for 3mm spindled 3-6mm thick wheels is 13,000RPM Max
- for 3mm spindled 10mm thick wheels is 5,000RPM Max
Relevant industries using RODA Mounted Felt Wheels:
- Mould Tool & Dies
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Oil & Gas
- Defence
- Metalwork
- Fabrication
- Medical
- Dental
- Silversmiths
- Jewellery
For more information about our RODA Range give us a call.
