FLAP DISCS FOR WELD BLENDING AND PREPARATION, MATERIAL REMOVAL
DeWALT (Towson, MD) recently launched a full range of Wearable Backing Flap Discs and Extended Performance Flap Discs that include industry-first innovations that deliver increased life and superior performance when compared to competitive products. These discs are ideal for welders, fabricators, and professionals working in fabricating shops, shipyards, and on jobsites. The Wearable Backing Flap Discs are designed for a number of applications including weld blending, material removal, and welding preparation.
?A frustration common among professionals is that half of the cloth is still on the flap disc when the disc itself can no longer be used,? said Brad Nohr, product manager. ?Therefore, we designed the new line of Wearable Backing Flap Discs with a backing that wears away as the disc is used to allow full access to the cloth. Likewise, we addressed user concerns about the speed of flap discs versus grinding wheels by engineering our new Extended Performance Flap Discs that deliver 40 percent faster removal than conventional flap discs.?
EXTENDED PERFORMANCE FLAP DISCS
In creating this new line, engineers set out to design the longest lasting and fastest flap disc on the market. They engineered a stronger cloth with a better grain and resin formula compared to its high performance discs, and then optimized the design of each flap width, length, and number of flaps, giving end users 178 percent more surface area than the High Performance discs.
The design achieves a 40-percent advantage in disc life versus the next best jumbo, and more than two times the life of the High Performance and traditional flap discs. In addition, these new discs boast a 40-percent increase in the removal rate over all other flap discs. The new Extended Performance Flap Discs are the only flap discs on the market that have the removal rate of conventional grinding wheels.
WEARABLE FLAP DISCS
The new Wearable Flap Discs utilize the flap design of the Extended Performance discs plus the new, exclusive wearable backing feature.
The backing automatically wears away at the same rate as the cloth. This allows full use of the cloth, offering welders and fabricators increased life of the product while helping to generate less waste. The longer life of the product translates into a high return on investment to professionals who use flap disc abrasives all day, every day.
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