Product Details
The 3M™ cloth belt 577F measures 6 inches by 48 inches with a 60 grit alumina zirconium abrasive, designed for use on aluminum, mild steel, stainless steel, and other exotic metal alloys for dimensioning parts, deburring, blending, and finishing castings and forgings. It features a grinding aid to reduce running temperatures, protecting heat-sensitive alloys such as stainless steel, nickel, and cobalt alloys. The abrasive is resin-bonded to the cloth backing to maintain durability under high heat and pressure. Alumina zirconia fractures frequently to continually produce sharp points, providing a faster cut rate than aluminum oxide, and is suited for heavy stock removal and high-pressure grinding. The abrasive belts are available in various widths and lengths to fit a wide range of industrial belt sanders, with wider belts used on wide belt sanders for flat finishing and smoothing rough edges on metal sheets, medium-width belts used on backstands or feed-thru flat finishers for weld removal and finishing sheets or coils, and narrow belts used on backstands or file tools for grinding, finishing, and accessing right-angle corners. Applications include centerless and cylindrical grinding, descaling, finishing, flat finishing, gate removal, high-pressure grinding, intermediate finishing, mill scale removal, parting line removal, plate grinding, shaping, and sheet grinding. This product is utilized in industries such as builders hardware, medical instruments, metal fabrication, metal implants, plating and polishing, plumbing fixtures, and turbine engines.
