Aluminum has low weight, high strength, excellent malleability, and great corrosion resistance. It makes great material for various applications. Aluminum components can be joined through welding. The weld beads can be cleaned up to tidy up the joints, improve or fix fitment issues, remove surface flaws that can weaken the bead, or prepare it for finishing.
There are various tools for cleaning aluminum weld. An already neat weld would only require a wire brush to remove surface bumps. Weld beads that are protruding too much can be fixed with diamond grinding wheels or grinding points.
The grinding wheels are used for smoothing flat and accessible joints like butt joints, edge joints, and even corner joints. The diamond grinding points are used for angled joints like lap joints and tee joints, or joints in tight spots that are impossible to reach with grinding wheels.
Why used diamond grinders? Diamond grinders provide the fastest and easiest way of cleaning up aluminum welds. The diamond abrasives used in grinders cuts into the aluminum weld material rather effortlessly. This allows the user to use the grinders without using so much strength for adding pressure, resulting to better control which ultimately leads to more precise work. Also, some aluminum welders use weld materials that are much stronger and harder than aluminum to produce very strong joints. In such cases, other grinder materials are unable or struggle with the cleaning up the beads.
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