How to Polish Stainless Steel - Kevin Caron
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From www.kevincaron.com - Artist Kevin Caron shows how he used a dual action grinder to polish his sculpture Beacon ....
Kevin Caron has been playing with some stainless steel while making his light sculpture sculpture Beacon.
People have been asking how he polished it.
Kevin Caron shows one of his dual action grinder polishers and the small black shaft that rotates to allow the grinder, which also spins, to rotate orbitally.
The grinder creates a cool effect and also quickly smooths and polishes metal.
Kevin Caron sticks a piece of 80 grit sandpaper right onto the sanding pad - it's adhesive instead of hook and loop. He has a piece of 1/8" stainless steel on his workbench.
To show the difference between single and dual action, he blocks the orbital motion, and puts on his safety gear to show what it can do. He grinds the stainless steel with the grinder set on single action.
Kevin Caron then turns back on the dual action and grinds one section of the metal that he has already prepped with the grinder set on single action. The stainless steel looks very different in the two sections.
Next he grinds the same area with 120 grit, then 220 grit. The metal is looking shinier and shinier.
You can keep going up in grits, finer and finer to get more and more of the scratches out. As you do, the shine starts coming up.
By starting with the single action, you get the roughest scratches more quickly, then you can turn to the dual action with the finer and finer grits and then polishes and you can practically have a mirror.
So this is just one more tool for your metalworking toolbox. A dual action sander like this - either air powered like the one he is using or an electric powered grinder - is great to polish metal.
Kevin Caron thanks everyone for watching, and reminds viewers to click the "like" button before heading to www.kevincaron.com to see more how to videos and his amazing sculptures.
Well, you might hang out for another moment to see him reach ... and reach for the grinder ....
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Thanks Kevin - I've been looking for this solution and glad you have demonstrated it (in an excellent manner)!
Glad it was helpful!
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Good job Kevin! Thank you for posting.
My pleasure!
Great video Kevin. Thank you.👍
You are welcome!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks, Kevin!! 👍
You're welcome!
Thanks
Fantastic info!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow cool sander!
Beacon is my fave 👍
Can't wait to see it in place!
love u it's juts that simple
Yes it is!
Thanks for watching.
gr8 info
Glad it was helpful!
We often use this technique prior to anodizing which leaves a matte finish on aluminum.
Cool! Thanks for watching!
Hi Kevin, greetings , video is informative , I wanna know can we grind stainless steel roller of my machine without giving them for grinding as I m using these rollers for making metal strip and don't wanna send them for grinding instead wanna find a way to polish them on machine itself , thnx for ur help in advance
Try this machine. www.vevor.com/products/tube-belt-sander-pipe-polisher-around-pipe-electric-sanding-machine-120v-800w?PLA-All%E9%AB%98-US-Power%20Tools-Top%20Sku-%E6%9C%88%E4%B8%ADTest-ecpc-20220125-mxy&msclkid=dd3c70181d3e147b59de11e53ac16191&Ad%20group%20%231
I have 304 stainless steel angle and its surface is very dull and gray. Would this sanding also work on 304 SS angle surface? thanks for the video. cool
Yes, absolutely
Hi Kevin, greetings from Perth. That was really interesting. I am curious as to what sort of paper you are using. Is it a "metal only" paper or a "general " paper of some sort? Would using a paper made for timber be a waste of time?
Thanks so much for your advice.
Need to get to your part of Aus. some day! Had a wonderful 2 weeks in Sydney and Melbourne a couple of years ago. The paper I am using is general use paper from Home Depot. It seems to work well on most of everything I work with. The stainless does eat it up the quickest of all.
@@KevincaronSculpture Hi Kevin, when u back in Oz, visit Darwin too, u will like here a lot, I bet!!!
@@KevincaronSculpture Hi Kevin, McMaster sells some DA discs built for stainless steel and hard metals. They are about a buck a piece and well worth the cost. Love your videos man, keep it up! Cheers!
Nice. Show us the polishing part. Using a buffer? Compounds?
No compounds, just different grits on the wheel.
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Great video Kevin, I'm trying to restore and polish a stainless resturant prep table, I started sanding with a random orbital sander, but there seems to be a coating and even the 80 grit does not seem to take it off. Any suggestions? Thanks
I always love a good mystery! Maybe you have a clear-coat on the stainless.. I would try a propane torch or whatever you have on hand and just try heating a little corner to see if it bubbles up. Or maybe a heat-gun instead. That's about all I got. Please let me know what you do to get this off. I have never heard of a coating like this. Thank you for watching and posting.,
@@KevincaronSculpture thank you Kevin, I will give it a shot. Have a good one, and thanks for sharing.
Pat
Will this work on the inside of a 5' diameter tank or just flat surfaces?
Harder to do but should work.
Would love to see taking it to mirror finish?? Thanks
Wish I knew how to do that!
@@KevincaronSculpture - Research
Many engineers name that 'dual action' 'planetary gearing,' because it is like a planet around a sun, going around the sun and itself. As an artist, one could sand one piece of a sculpture to a certain grit, like 80 or 220, then other pieces to high grits, say 1600, then finer into the 1000s, creating a sense of color/texture in the final sculpture. Yet a question. If you made one of your sculptures with stainless steel polished to a mirror finish, then left it outdoors, how long would the mirror finish last when exposed to weather, in a climate such as St. Louis, MO, or Kansas City? Thanks for the tips.
With the proper care, cleaning and coating with a stainless polish the shine should last for 20 years minimum. If you polish it to a mirror and then use an auto clear coat it should outlast all of us!
Thanks Kevin, what brand, model and where did you get the polisher??
I found that one on Amazon. Just search for drum polisher. There is no name on the machine other than "Polisher".
@@KevincaronSculpture Thank you Kevin!
I have a water distiller and it's used 4 times a day for 2 years now! Mill finished look. But I wanna sand lightly with Die grinder on slow with wet and dry! Then polish! Any reply appreciated cheers from Australia. Subbed and liked 🙂👍👍👍
Not sure the die grinder is the correct tool but what the heck, go for it! I use grits up to 800 and then go to scotchbrite. After that I get to the steel wool.
@@KevincaronSculpture I was gonna use 1000 rpm and put sandpaper attachments and work until I get a polish job, lithe maybe start with 200 mininim, 320 grit , 600, 1500 and last 3000 grit? Because it's deep access? Gentle weight not pushing hard, lol. The water distiller is over 300 mm deep and about 250 mm wide. I gotta admit I laughed when I read: don't know about die grinder but go for it? Lol. I pictured grinding through the heating element underneath! Lol😂👍👍👍
So what size compressor is good for a small shop with a wide assortment of air tools?
I have a single stage 2 cylinder pump feeding a 100 gallon tank. Works almost all the time. If there are 2 or 3 of us working sometimes we run out of air. When this pump dies I will replace it with a 2 cylinder 2 stage instead.
@@KevincaronSculpture Thanks!
Why in the world would you ever start at 80 grit I am a professional metal polisher stainless steel U Want it as smooth as possible it takes absolutely so much time to sand stainless steel you would have been much further off to start at 400 or 600 grit and work your way to a thousand and stop
You ever try to buy a 400 grit flap disk?!?!?!? Not very good at this part so just floundering along.
@@KevincaronSculpture yes I buy them all the way up to 800 grit Maverick abrasives
@@KevincaronSculpture but just out of curiosity why in the world would you want to use a flap disc I have peace that nice started about 400 Grit sandpaper and work your way to about 800 Granite Ridge finished out with a green or purple chromium oxide
Hi mark as you are professionnel i need your help to learn who to get a mirror aspect on stainless tank
Will sand paper scarf the steel
Is this tool what they call a random orbital sander?
Yes, that is what this tool is called.
Snazzy little sander!
So many great tools out there and so little space left in the toolbox!
Great vid. Thanks! Quick search: most dual-actions that I'm seeing are pneumatic ... electric are only rare/sketchy brands. Have you actual seen a good electric?
No I have not. I know they are out there but never played with one.
@@KevincaronSculpture Thx!
They're called random orbit sanders and they're widely available. You can't switch between the two modes like on Kevin's, but you probably wouldn't do that much anyway.
Ya, if you're a hobbyist then the DA/Bauer 22mm throw is actually a good one. If you go to the "detailing" guys on YT you can find lots of reviews and comparisons for the Bauer and others, for both hobbyists and for professionals.
Dual acting sanderb😂 its cald concentric?
I believe that is one term, the other is orbital sander or dual action sander.
Hi it's griet
I'm good at this
I work to inox
Thanks for watching and posting.
you remind me of bubbles from trailer park boys
Okayyyy, Thanks for watching and posting.
Should’ve been named how to sand stainless steel
Or…how a da sander works, that was totally pointless to the video and he didn’t finish the “polish”.
Hmmmm,Bacon I likes Me Bacon whens Breakfast ??
Just about any time in my opinion!!
😂
Electropolishing isn't bad either.
Have to look in to that!
@@KevincaronSculpture Series 200/300 Electropolish solution is 75% sulfuric acid, 25% phosphoric acid, and if that wasn't bad enough, it produces toxic metal salts as hazardous waste, specifically chromium salts. Electropolishing increases stainless's corrosion inhibition well beyond passivation, and smooths the surface layer so finely, it reduces where bacteria can hide, and is required for most food-related stainless equipment. My company does it in Kansas City.
I resently got a drumgrinder. youre method tok way to long and also it doesent give consistensy on wary large or long items.
Wish I did more stainless, I would get a drumgrinder also.
"D.A." Old body man, eh?
I have had my hands on a body or 2!!
kinda thought so...
Video should be called how to sand, called how to polish but doesn't polish?
If Jordan Peterson became a metal worker instead of a psychologist
If you say so.
And not to mention you didn't polish anyting you just sanded it
Picky picky!!
You didn't buff nuthin....you sanded alittle.....slacking if you ask me , on a info video.....but , nobody asked me....!😁
Thank you for sharing your opinion.
Hi-ho! Kermit the frog here.
whatever!
You need to learn how to sand! Your first pass, you had the grinder on an angle your second pass it was flat !!! come on man !!!😱😓🤷🏼
Thank you for watching and posting.