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Surface finish
Wondering the best way to define a surface finish problem we have.
A blanchard ground part has long smooth waviness (2mm wide peak, 1mm wide valley approx.) with peak to valley distance of .0004". Our profilometer registers finish as 30-35 Ra.
My thoughts are surface finish should register at about 400 Ra (maybe a cutoff adjustment on profilometer) unless smooth sloping is accounted for some other way. How would I state surface finish requirements to cover something like this on drawing. Lay direction is not important.
thanks in advance,
jeff
Wondering the best way to define a surface finish problem we have.
A blanchard ground part has long smooth waviness (2mm wide peak, 1mm wide valley approx.) with peak to valley distance of .0004". Our profilometer registers finish as 30-35 Ra.
My thoughts are surface finish should register at about 400 Ra (maybe a cutoff adjustment on profilometer) unless smooth sloping is accounted for some other way. How would I state surface finish requirements to cover something like this on drawing. Lay direction is not important.
thanks in advance,
jeff