Carbide Burrs (often known as Rotary Burrs) can be used for cutting, shaping, grinding but for the elimination of sharp edges, burrs and excess material (deburring).

1. What material can Carbide Burrs be utilized on?
Carbide burrs works extremely well on many materials. Metals including steel, aluminum and iron, all sorts of wood, acrylics, fibreglass and plastics. When applied to soft metals including gold, platinum and silver, carbide burrs are ideal as they lasts quite a long time with no chipping or breaking.

Steel, Carbon Steel & Stainless-steel
Cast Iron
Aluminium
Titanium
Cobalt
Nickel
Gold, Platinum & Silver
Ceramics
Fibreglass
Plastic, Carbon fibre Reinforced Plastic (CRP), Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GRP)
Brass, Copper & Bronze
Zinc
Wood
Different cuts of carbide burrs will be best suited to certain materials, begin to see the next point below to discover more regarding the various cuts.

Exactly what do You employ Carbide Burrs In?
Ideally carbide burrs are utilized in Air Tools i.e Die Grinders, Pneumatic rotary tools and high speed engravers. Micro Motors, Pendant Drills, Flexible Shafts, and hobby rotary tools like a Dremel.

Only use a handpiece that runs true i.e without having wobble.

Who Uses Carbide Burrs?
Carbide burrs are widely used for metalwork, tool making, engineering, model engineering, wood carving, jewellery making, welding, chamferring, casting, deburring, grinding, cylinder head porting and sculpting. And are utilized in the aerospace, automotive, dental, metal sculpting, and metal smith industries to name just a few.

2. Carbide Burrs Commonly Are available in Two Cuts; Single Cut and Double Cut (Diamond Cut)
Single cut (one flute) carbide burrs possess a right handed (Up cut) spiral flute. These tend to be used with stainless-steel, hardened steel, copper, surefire, and ferrous metals and may remove material quickly which has a smooth finish. Use for heavy stock removal, milling, deburring and cleaning.

Heavy elimination of material
Milling
Deburring
Cleaning
Creates long chips

Double cut carbide burrs usually are utilized on ferrous and non ferrous metals, aluminium, soft steel as well as for all non-metal materials including plastics and wood. They’ve got more cutting edges and can remove material faster. Double cut are occasionally referrred to as Diamond Cut or Cross Cut (2 flutes cut across each other) leaves a smoother finish than single cut because of producing smaller chips since they cut away the material. Use for medium-light stock removal, deburring, finishing and cleaning. A double cut carbide burr is the most popular cut and may look at you through most applications.

Medium- light removing material
Deburring
Fine finishing
Cleaning
Smooth finish
Creates small chips

3. What Speed or RPM should you use your Carbide Burrs?
The pace where you have your carbide bur within your rotary tool is dependent upon the pad you’re using it on as well as the contour being produced but it is reliable advice you no longer need to exceed speeds of 35,000 RPM.

4. Tend not to Apply Excessive Pressure
Like all drill bits and burrs, allow burr carry out the work and apply only a little pressure otherwise the cutting edges of the flutes will chip away or become smooth too soon, lowering the lifetime of your burr.

5. Carbide Burrs are not as easy Than HSS Burrs
Our Carbide Burrs are machine ground coming from a specially chosen grade of carbide. Due to the extreme hardness with the Tungsten Carbide they can be applied to considerably more demanding jobs than HSS (High Speed Steel).

Carbide Burrs also perform better at higher temperatures than HSS so that you can run them hotter, as well as for longer.

HSS burrs will quickly soften at higher temperatures so carbide is obviously a better choice for lengthy term performance.

What Are The Features of Tungsten Carbide Burrs?
Durability
Use for lengthy production runs
High stock removal
Suitable for using on many hard and hard materials
Well suited for Deburring, finishing, carving, shaping and smoothing welds, moulds, dies and forgings

6. Keep The Carbide Burr On the go
When working with your carbide burr never keep it still for too long as this may prevent the burr from digging and jabbing into your material causing unsightly marks and roughness.

End with an ‘up’ stroke for any smoother finish in your work.

Stay Safe:
Always keep your burr shank is well inserted into your collet and clamped down tightly
Keep pressure light and the bur moving, centering on the highest material first
Ensure your jobs are secured tightly in your workbench
Don’t snag or jam your burr to your work
Wear eye protection at the very least, but better yet make use of a full shield for the face
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