Thread: The ultimate lapping mchine?...

I saw this and started to drool.........

Rociprolap machine 30, Stone Age Industries

at first when i saw the machine was happy then all of a sudden i saw the price ooouch.
thank you Randy for the link

When are they delivering it Randy ?

I took a look at the price also, and now I don't mind lapping manually at all, really!!! I like it!![so to speak]


me again

"...anything you need optically flat."

Think what fast work this will make of getting my veal cutlets ready to fry!

It's just a polisher. They make smaller units for table tops for a couple hundred bucks. We used to use them in the geology lab to polish rocks. You put a mat inside the "dish" and water and some alumina or cerium oxide and let it run for a day or two and your item is polished like a mirror.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

It's just a polisher.

I don't know..... I read another page on that website and they were talking about starting with 80 grit plus a bunch of other interesting techniques.

In all honesty, if I had the money I would buy it. But I want a 5 ft diameter!

Well yea you can use any grit you want but the type of action it produces works best with higher grits. Of course with the size of that thing and the motor it has it might well be good for gross work. The table ones though are really fine polishers.

Once it gets going the item in the tray just slides around the tray. You could do the same thing by hand if you had the time and the endurance-har har.