Show us your device to hold your plate while polishing

[ecoleica]

About to get my local woodworker to produce me some buffing paddles as well as a fume box. I was just curious to see what you all use to secure your plate while polishing them.

Cheers

Steve

[Bakody]

For silver polishing (only hand) I’m just using a piece of wood, which bottom is even, same size like my plate and to hold the plate I’m using double sided tape.

For copper polishing, double sided tape on a big surface (table top, floor) to able to use sander.

So my isn’t really a peace of art, I made them. Maybe the others can give you better ideals.

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[ecoleica]

You sand your cooper plates Bakody?

[Bakody]

Yes, to remove deep scratches, but I’m using a copper polishing liquid. Silver plater told me, on copper I can use it, no problem.

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[CasedImage]

I have a technique that is a bit upside down, but it works for me. I call it linear orbital polishing – I use orbital sander on a upturned buffing paddle. The plate is held to a acrylic sheet that has slight grooves near the sheet edge where strips of double sided tape sit – can be seen at http://www.cdags.org/wp-content/uploads/dsc01621.jpg – tech gallery on plate boxes.

A video showing it in use can be seen at: http://www.cdags.org/dagforum/images/attachments/linearorbital1.MPG

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[captivelight]

@CasedImage

Can you fix the link to the video that shows the sanding block in use? I missed it.

Also, where did you get the orangish inserts that hold your plates in the box from the picture shown? are they foam rubber?

Thanks, Ben

[CasedImage]

Oops sorry, try now

The plate box runners that keep the plate spaced are made of a hardened dense foam material that I had cut on a cnc router, by a business I used when living in Ireland, so basically a one off. I am planning to make whole plate boxes but will cut material with my precision table saw to make the grooves for that. The yellow stuff in the picture was called foam-X or something.

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[CasedImage]

that video is a few years old, here’s the interior of my current trailer darkroom, on the wall is the blue transformer for the orbital sander – it is available speed one which is important for getting the right polishing action. Underneath the bench is my buffing paddle warmer. Of course if I make it to whole plate the whole setup is going to be a bit challenged by the space but where there’s a will there’s a way.

 

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