The choice of the right polishing cloth is essential for a low-deformation and relief-free polish. The cloth material (silk, artificial silk, man-made fibers, wool fabric, felt, flocked or foamed synthetic fabrics) and the corresponding resilience are a crucial criterion in the selection of the polishing cloth. The possible fixation systems (GALAXY metal disc with magnetic foil or X-Tap) also differ.
Our GALAXY polishing cloths are now available with QPREP anti-slip backing! This allows GALAXY polishing cloths to resist high shear forces, even with high contact pressures and fully loaded sample holders, ensuring a stable polishing process every time.
At the beginning, pre-polishing, polishing cloths with a low resilience (hard cloth material) are selected, as these support the retention of edge sharpness. In comparison to the further polishing steps, a higher material removal is achieved during pre-polishing due to longer polishing times.
Polishing cloths with different resilience are used for intermediate polishing. The objective of the polish and the material to be polished are always the determining factors for the selection of a suitable polishing cloth.
Final polishing is performed on polishing cloths with a high resilience with short polishing times to avoid relief formation. Final polishing can either be done with diamond suspensions (3 μm - 0.5 μm) or, for the highest demands for analysis, by using fine polishing suspensions (oxide polish 0.1 μm - 0.05 μm) or (alumina 1 μm - 0.3 μm).
The selection of QPREP polishing cloths offers a suitable cloth for every polishing step, which, with the matching QPREP diamond suspension, ensures excellent polishing results.
