Case Study: Burnishing a Shaft Used in the Oil Industry

THE CHALLENGE

This customer was manufacturing a shaft used in the oil industry made of Super Duplex stainless steel using a DMG Mori NTX2000 machine. This specific shaft had a diameter of 3.94 inches (100mm), and required a surface finish of 16 Ra microinch (0.4 Ra) or better. Previously, they had been moving the shaft to another machine to grind the part down in order to achieve the surface finish needed. This is time-consuming and costly since this required a whole other operation of moving the parts to another machine.

Here was their turning operation before we got involved:

OUR SOLUTION

Once we got involved, we suggested for our customer to use our S2075-00M single roll burnishing tool made by Elliott Tool Technologies.

Here were the results from the burnishing solution:

FINAL RESULTS

The single roll burnishing tool produced a surface finish of 7 Ra microinch (0.18 Ra) or better. The parts could be made all in-house, eliminating the need for expensive sub-contracting to grind the pistons. The new process only required one set-up, saving our customer lots of time and money.