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Finishing of Rubber Components

This document discusses different methods for finishing rubber components, including deflashing, modifying surfaces, and polishing. It describes several specific finishing methods such as flash and spew removal through hand or machine trimming, punching, grinding, shot blasting, painting and lacquering, using drying oils, and chemical surface treatment. Flash and spew can be removed through buffing with felt, cotton, or wire wheels or through low temperature tumbling using dry ice or liquid nitrogen. Punching and grinding are used to obtain the correct dimensions and smooth surfaces. Painting and lacquering protect uncoated metal surfaces, and chemical surface treatment can modify the coefficient of friction.

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Finishing of Rubber Components

This document discusses different methods for finishing rubber components, including deflashing, modifying surfaces, and polishing. It describes several specific finishing methods such as flash and spew removal through hand or machine trimming, punching, grinding, shot blasting, painting and lacquering, using drying oils, and chemical surface treatment. Flash and spew can be removed through buffing with felt, cotton, or wire wheels or through low temperature tumbling using dry ice or liquid nitrogen. Punching and grinding are used to obtain the correct dimensions and smooth surfaces. Painting and lacquering protect uncoated metal surfaces, and chemical surface treatment can modify the coefficient of friction.

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FINISHING OF

RUBBER
COMPONENTS
FRAZER KUMAR DHIVIYARAJ (2019508012)
NISHANTH V.K (2019508031)
YUVAN CHANDAR V (2019508053)
Finishing of rubber components primarily means
deflashing, modifying surfaces, polishing etc

Some of the methods are:


1.Flash and Spew removal
2.Grinding
3.Punching
4.Painting
5.Surface treatment
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1. FLASH AND SPEW
REMOVAL

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Moulded rubber parts can be deflash by trimming
I. by hand or
II.by machine

Hand trimming:
*It is still necessary for complex products
*Can be used for small production
*Tools used- Knives, scissors
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Machine trimming:
*Various machines are available which trim
components
*such as - disc, lids or mats by the action of two rolls
or wheels running with power
*Main two process are:
1.Buffing
2.Low temperature tumbling 5
Buffing:
- This process uses buffing
wheel
- Which can be hard felt,
Cotton cloth,wire brush etc.
- Textile wheel removes flash and polish hard
surface
- Wire buff used for preparing rubber to bnd with
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metal
Low temperature tumbling:
DRY ICE TUMBLER: LIQUID NITROGEN WHEELABRATOR:
TUMBLER:
*Refrigerant is CO2 *Refrigerant is LN2 *Frozen parts are
*Freezes the flash *Freezes the flash removed by shot blast
*Steel shots, pebbles action
*Steel shots, pebbles
are put and tumbled in are put and tumbled *Components and
the revolving drum in the revolving drum flash are separated by
*Frozen parts breaks vibrating sieves
*Frozen parts breaks
off off
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CRYOGENIC
DEFLASHER
( (Liquid nitrogen
tumbler)

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2. PUNCHING

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Punching:
*Independent of Quantity
*Flash can be removed from an orifice which can’t be removed by
machine tools
*Operator is required
*Punch and die sets are used
*Fly presses are less in use now a days
*Advantages - greater throughput possible,
Multi gang punches can be done
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3. GRINDING

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Grinding:
*It is necessary to obtain a superior finished product
* Flow marks, cloth impression, sprue lines or injection pipes can cause
surface damage
*So product is oversized and then grinded to correct dimension
*Products are typewriter platens,printing rollers and tubing for parted off
washers
*Aluminium oxide,Zirconia,ceramic,silicon carbide,super abrasive diamond
- grinding wheel material
*Rubber deforms on grinding wheels and speed so it must be taken care to
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get a fine finished product
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4. SHOT BLASTING

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Shot Blasting:

*Shot blasting is a resurfacing process


*For some applications, rubber sheets are
desirable to have clean rough surfaces
*Surface of rubber sheet is shot blasted with
fine Aluminium oxide particles
*it can be of controlled size

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5. PAINTING &
LACQUERING

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LACQUER: PAINT:
A liquid made of shellac A coloured substance which is
dissolved in alcohol or synthetic spread over a surface and dries
substances, that dries to form a to leave a thin decorative or
hard protective coatings. protective coating. 17
Painting & lacquering :
*Its necessary to treat unprotected metal surfaces in rubber to metal
bonded components
*There of many types
*Primarily painting and lacquering are done
*There are some exceptions, notably for toys and footwear which
depend on their market for high gloss finish
*Shellac, CSM, or PU can be used as lacquer
*It can be either applied prior to final cure stage or as final operation
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Influence of composition of lacquer coating :
*Rubber compound and lacquer has to adapt to each other
*Paraffine, mineral oil, and large amount of plasticizers must not be
there, if present then will concentrate on surface and reduce adhesion
*Lacquer should not contain components that affect vulcanization
*Zinc stearate interferes with the drying and appearance of coating
*Mould coating, silicone oil, soap can’t be used if lacquer is used
*Must be cautious while using antioxidants
*Discolouring compounds dissolve in solvent if lacquer and diffuse
and discolour on light exposure 19
6. DRYING OILS

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Drying oils:
*Suitable varnishes are Dry oils
*That were blown or sulphur treated
*Sometimes they contain alkyl and synthetic resin
*As base, Polymerized vinyl compounds can be used
*Depending on its property, the lacquer is applied to the vulcanizate
or to the rubber compound and the coating is formed as air drying or
during vulcanization
*Drying during vulcanization has advantage like dry film is formed
which can be used for immediate packaging of rubber product 21
7. CHEMICAL SURFACE
TREATMENT

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Chemical surface treatment:
*Majority of rubbers show High coefficient of friction
*But for certain applications we need low cof, for this we need to
chemically modify the surface area of the rubber
*It is done by halogenation of the surface of the vulcanizate
*Both chlorine and Bromine are used
*The moulded article is immersed in chlorine or bromine with water
for few minutes then rinsed with water
*Other methods - Use thin film of PU and PTFE
*Its applied from solvent or aqueous dispersion or as a film 23
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