Tech Trends: Maintain Your Molds

To keep a mold running, it needs to be properly maintained, and that includes proper treatment of the mold’s surface. Surface treatment is key to a mold’s quality, corrosion-resistance, wear, tool life and more.

Here are some product from supplier companies to help you maintain and treat the surfaces of your molds!

Anti-Seize Compound Helps Prevent Non-Similar Metals Fusing Together

Slide Products, Inc.’s aluminum anti-seize compound lowers friction and torque between metal components, suitable for applications where non-similar metals are in contact. Formulated with more metallic and other solids than other compounds, it is heat stable up to 2000ºF/1093ºC.

Polishing System Reduces Finishing Time for Increased Productivity

Gesswein’s UltraMax mini ultrasonic polishing system enables users to polish ribs, slots and intricate details far faster than by hand. Take a rough milled surface to a mirror finish using diamond tools and ceramic stones. Includes a compact ultrasonic handpiece with an infinitely variable stroke length of 3-40μm, 36 watts output power, 18-26kHz ultrasonic frequency and a complete accessories kit.

Polishing Stone Kits Fit to Individual Finishing Needs

Boride Engineered Abrasives announces that it has added more polishing stone kits to its extensive list of polishing options. The company’s new multi-polishing stone kits offer a sample assortment of different stone types in one convenient kit. Choose from the EDM polishing stones kit, general purpose polishing stones kit, white aluminum oxide polishing stones kit, silicon carbide polishing stones kit or finishing polishing stone kit.

Rust Preventative Provides Corrosion Protection

Cortec developed EcoAir tool & die rust preventative to meet the needs of mold, tool and die manufacturers and end users. The rust preventative comes in a non-flammable spray can that makes it easier to use than traditional greases and shipping oils employed to protect tooling assets and all tool steels during shipping, storage and transport. The rust preventative provides corrosion protection, as well water displacement and cleaning properties for any process-related fluids remaining on molds, and it does not need to be cleaned off the mold with solvent-based removers.

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