liquid honing to sharpen tools

[drillingsteel]

I'm trying to sharpen some tools. I heard you can use a liquid honing system to sharpen your tools like files. Does this work with Endmills & Drills. If so how to get hold of a liquid honing system.

 

[tomwalz]

I thought the deal with files was that it was an acid that ate away the dull edges until they were sharper but shorter. I haven't seen it advertised in quite a while.

We bought a little Darex drill sharpener for the shop but no one ever really liked it much. Maybe the bigger ones work better. I have seen guys demonstrate them at shows and the results look good there. In all fairness we don’t use many bits and I don’t think anyone here ever really tried to use the Darex much.

Be really careful about using an acid on tungsten carbide as it will most likely attack the cobalt matrix selectively.

Tom


Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.

http://www.carbideprocessor.com

 

[CMfgE1]

I would recommend a fixture specifically designed to sharpen tools using a surface grinder. If you have the proper tools its easy. If not then I would send them out to be sharpened. A company setup for this will yield much better results. If you do not sharpen them properly you will shorten the life considerably and thus defeating the purpose for sharpening them yourself.

Any good tool supply company will have the fixtures and the wheels for the application. your local phone book will have tool sharpening companies.


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