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Old timer at the shop swore by manual deburring over using a vibratory tumbler...
He said 'you'll catch every nick and burr by hand' but after 8 hours of filing on a 300-piece run of stainless brackets my fingers were raw and I still missed a few, so who's got the better method for small batches under 500 units?
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nora_park7213d ago
Oh man, your poor fingers. Old timers love their "feel" until you've got carpal tunnel and still missed a burr anyway. I swear half the "right way" is just them making sure you suffer like they did. Grab a cheap tumbler and call it a day, you'll get your life back.
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evangarcia13d ago
Nora, I get where you're coming from but I gotta disagree a bit. Some old timers definitely just want you to suffer through the same stuff they did, but not all of them are like that. There's something to be said for learning the hand method first so you actually understand what the tool is doing before you let a machine do all the work. A tumbler is great for volume but you lose that direct feedback that tells you when to stop and look closer. I think there's room for both approaches without it having to be one or the other.
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