Hi all, my advisor wants me to look into ways I can change our manual grinder-polisher (Buehler EcoMat30) to a semi automatic.
The samples I'm polishing are 10 mm in diameter and have strict perpendicularity requirements. The have already been properly machined to these requirements , I just need better surface quality now. There is a worry that by hand polishing I'll introduce like edge rounding or uneven pressure so the surface doesn't remain truly flat.
I am looking for like a mount or holder system that I can use with my manual polisher to keep the surface flat. Do y'all have a suggestion? Has anyone made a rig themselves for this type of application?
It should also be noted that I cannot permanently mount the specimens in carbon/graphite/resin and both sides of the specimen needs to be polished