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Radial arm tooling - drainboards

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:44 pm
by santanota
HI Guys

I'm again solicite your advice
I bought a radial arm The first one in Colombia ( I suppose ) and I'd like to create drainboards in granite and silestone
Could you suggest the tooling and steps needed in order to create a glossy surface

Looking forward your comments and suggestions

Many thanks

Re: Radial arm tooling - drainboards

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:01 pm
by VThartzog
Many of use use cnc's to pitch and polish drain boards. Using a radial arm I feel like it would be difficult to pitch the board with the nature of how flat those machine works. You would probably need a jig as a sort of guide to keep the heads from running out of the shape you're trying to do. Sounds like you should run a test first, but I'm having trouble figuring how you would pitch it.

Re: Radial arm tooling - drainboards

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:09 am
by akgranite
It is easy I can do one on my wizard with a sink hole in 2-3 hours , I use a pattern and a tool package that I orderd with the wizard , in the manual they out line how to do it ,simple .
if you want I can take a picture of what tools I use . :roll: :roll:

Re: Radial arm tooling - drainboards

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 4:46 am
by santanota
Hi Alec

Thanks for your messenge
Could you give me a hand taking a photo of the tooling
I bought the machine as used and the information that I have is minimum
Also it is a ghines signum 1998. The machine runs ok

Re: Radial arm tooling - drainboards

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 4:51 am
by Dan R.
Ghines is an SFA sponsor. You should be able contact them directly for information on tooling for that machine. I had the opportunity to visit their facilty in Italy, with a group of North American fabricators. guides is a first class operation with a real passion for stone processing equipment.