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New Electro-Polishing Process

  • By simon.popeandmeads
  • 08 Mar, 2016
Over the last 6 months Pope & Meads have been developing a new capability. It is a variation of electro-polishing that results in stainless steel parts being cleaned, polished and deburred.

We regulary supply parts to industries where burrs (even micro-burrs), imperfections in surface finish and contamination can cause real problems. Because we deliver these parts direct to the production line, they have to be perfect! Rather than typical labour intensive methods which can still be problematic, we decided to develop this new process.

It was important to us to develop a process that minimised damage to the material structure at the surface. Traditional mechanical polishing distorts structure and embeds polishing compounds into the material, this can affect performance of the finished parts and lead to contamination and/or corrosion.

When we are finished the parts are burr free, clean and have a completely passive, undamaged surface with a high lustre.

The process is quick and easy to run and a lot less labour intensive, this will lead to a cost saving and our customers will see the benefit.

If you have any questions or think we may be able to help please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Our latest project is manufacturing Inconel 718 prototype components for the semi-conductor industry. Big thank you to the ISCAR projects team and everyone involved with the development of these parts.

Using the latest in ceramic cutting tool technology we have managed to half the time it takes to produce these parts (compared with the next best alternative). Inconel 718 (or Alloy 718) is a high-strength superalloy with a nickel-chrome base and is notoriously difficult to machine consistently and without experiencing strain hardening.

This particular application involved Turning, Drilling, Milling and Thread Milling of small deep non standard pitch threads and very tight machining limits of better than 5 microns (0.005mm) both dimensionally and geometrically.

By combining both our engineering know how and Iscar’s technical expertise this project was successfully concluded with a presentation to our client before handing over the resulting trial parts.



By Tom Taylor 31 Mar, 2020
We believe in a partnership approach to business.  The development of successful, long term, strategic relationships based on collaboration and best industry practice leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

One such partnership we have is with ISCAR tools ltd. ISCAR is part of the IMC Group and one of the worlds leading suppliers of cutting tools.
Since 2018 a technical partnership has existed enabling us to work together developing machining and tooling strategies to reduce manufactures times whilst improving quality.

Read a recent article published in MTD CNC magazine:

http://read.mtdpublishing.com/march-2020/?page=22



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Pope and Meads are pleased to announce we have recently invested in 2 new seats of Open Mind’s HyperMILL CAD/CAM software capable of Programming both simple and complex shapes from an easy to learn and use GUI. The software comes out of the box with the ability to post programs out to all our machines from 2 axis lathes upto full 5 axis milling and has many features which make programming more efficient and safer such as advanced HSC & HPC cycles (High-Speed Cutting & High-Performance Cutting), 5 axis drilling and powerful real time simulation of programming cycles with built in collision avoidance. We look forward to working with Open Mind to further improve our capabilities here at Pope & Meads.

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