Our Aka-Silk, self-adhesive, PSA-backed polishing cloth for metallographic polishing.
It’s for polishing and final polishing, including oxide polishing of harder materials and coatings.
Silk is a woven, natural silk cloth for polishing with 6 – 3 µm diamonds and for final polishing with 1 – 0.25 µm diamonds and oxide polishing suspensions. It can also be used for fine grinding of ferrous metals.
Silk provides maximum planeness and best edge retention.
It uses medium forces; 15 – 25 N on a 30 mm sample.