I've got about 5000 12 gauge 1.5" round aluminum blanks that I've got for a stamping project. The blanks I am looking at getting come rough, they still have the little rim where they were stamped out of a giant sheet of metal and the surfaces are kind of scratched up and unfinished. With the quantity I'm looking at deburring and polishing these guys by hand isn't going to get me anywhere.
Does anyone here have experience with deburring and polishing aluminum parts? I was looking at getting a reloading tumbler (I want one anyway) and doing batches, or rigging something up with a 5 gallon drum and some rollers hooked to like a dryer motor or something for larger batches.
I'm not planning on anodizing or anything, just cleaning them up to look nice and then stamping them.
Does anyone here have experience with deburring and polishing aluminum parts? I was looking at getting a reloading tumbler (I want one anyway) and doing batches, or rigging something up with a 5 gallon drum and some rollers hooked to like a dryer motor or something for larger batches.
I'm not planning on anodizing or anything, just cleaning them up to look nice and then stamping them.
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