Baird,
I prefer the lippage metal diamonds
John
From: Baird Standish
[mailto:bairdstandish@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:24 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Limestone Grinding
Thanks John! The metal
diamonds I have are the Toolips. How does the metal lippage tool work
compared to the toolips? Just put them on the machine like regular
diamonds?
thanks,
Baird
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:05 PM, John Freitag <jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com>
wrote:
Baird
My
response below in Blue
From: Baird Standish
[mailto:bairdstandish@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:12 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] Limestone Grinding
Hi,
I recently posted a question about grinding some green limestone. Thanks
all for the input. I did an extensive test and it found that I had to go
to 50 metals to get the overall damage out, and had to go down to 30 grit to
get the really badly damaged stuff corrected. I have a few related
questions:
1. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good aggressive metal diamond that I
can use on the limestone? I have been using some old metals that work
fine on concrete, but if there is something out there that is a little more
aggressive or effective in order to eliminate some of the grinding time, that
would be great. Someone recommended some vitreous diamonds a while back,
but I'm not sure what that is.
I
would recommend the metal lippage tool from Stone Care Central the 50 metals
cut very good. Then use the 100 metal lippage tool then switch over to the
resin pads starting with 50 grit.
2. when transitioning from metals to resins I have gone to 200 metals and then
back down to 100 resin, and I have also gone to 100 metals and then back down
to 50 resin. Would there be an advantage to one method over another?
3. I have a klindex machine with a planetary device that I use for grinding
concrete but have never had to use it for grinding stone. Was wondering
if the planetary would improve the efficiency of the job or overall finish of
the stone. The cups on the planetary keep the metals in place so the
diamonds are not thrown on concrete, but I haven't run into that problem so
much on stone.
After
the 100 metal switch over to the 50 resin pads . The klindex machine may speed
up the process you should have no problems using that machine .
3.To achieve a satin finish I tested the diamonds up to 200 and then used an
800 twister/spinflex type pad and it gave the finish a low satin finish.
But to get more shine without many more steps, what would work? I am
concerned about using polish because in the past I have had a hard time
adjusting the level of gloss.
If
you want more gloss and don’t want to use the polishing powders then hone up to
a 400 or 800 then finish off with a higher grit honing powder or your twister
pad
Hope
this helps
John E
Freitag
Director
The Stone & Tile
School
Office # 407-567-7652
Cell # 407-615-0134
Thanks
for your input!
Baird
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