Electrolytic polishing
Electrolytic polishing, electropolishing, electrobrightening or anodic polishing is a well-known method to ablate substrate material from different workpieces.
As a function of the electric current in a special electrolytic system optimised for the substrate material the surface roughness is minimised without stressing the material.
Because of the increased ablation of edges and pinnacles this method is enabled to sensitively remove burs from machined surfaces.
Preferred materials for electropolishing are chrome- and chrome- nickel- steels, aluminium-, copper- and titanium alloys.
For special materials like molybdenum and tungsten special electrolytic systems were developed for analogue processing in comparison to aforementioned materials.
Electropolished / deflashed stainless steel workpiece
Electropolished stainless steel workpiece
Electropolished titanium workpiece