Need Help With Sand Paper Flap Wheel

**StaySolitude** · 12-14-2011, 06:48 PM

I am trying to design a car wash type system that will allow a linear actuator to run a 1ftX1ft stainless steel case through a series of sand paper flap wheels. There will be two shafts with up to 50lbs on them.

I need to spec a motor to run these two shafts using a pully/v-belt setup. Does anyone know what kind of AC motor I should be looking for? The wheels are 3 inches wide and 6 inches in diameter. They are speced for 6000 rpm but doesn't this seem way to high? I have heard buffing stainless steel only requires around 150 rpm.

Any suggestions?

**IID** · 12-14-2011, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by StaySolitude

I am trying to design a car wash type system that will allow a linear actuator to run a 1ftX1ft stainless steel case through a series of sand paper flap wheels. There will be two shafts with up to 50lbs on them.

I need to spec a motor to run these two shafts using a pully/v-belt setup. Does anyone know what kind of AC motor I should be looking for? The wheels are 3 inches wide and 6 inches in diameter. They are speced for 6000 rpm but doesn't this seem way to high? I have heard buffing stainless steel only requires around 150 rpm.

Any suggestions?

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**ArkayoDeetayo** · 12-14-2011, 09:19 PM

writing in English would be a good start...sounds like a second language lol

**C. Charles Hahn** · 12-14-2011, 09:35 PM

My answer now is the same as it was the last time you made a thread here:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...el-buffer.html

For an automated process like that you're probably looking for industrial-grade machinery along the same lines as a CNC machine; I would suggest looking to a supplier of that sort of equipment for guidance.

A detailing forum like this isn't really going to be able to help much if you're not looking for manual polishing/buffing techniques.