Carbide burrs are made with a combination of the elements of carbon and tungsten. These elements are melded together to create an alloy that is resistant to heat, rust, and scratches.
Tungsten is a universal metal that is used in various types of industries like manufacturing, surgical tools, milling, industrial alloys, and others.
These burrs also come in different ranges which are used for a specific purpose.
Like Nail burrs, Dentist burrs, Industrial burrs,
So, let’s understand what is Nail burrs and Industrial Burrs, with its uses and types. And also the major difference between them.
Let’s start,
Nail Carbide burrs come in various shapes and sizes. These are mostly in diamond or carbide. Carbide nail burrs are designed specifically for nail or skin pathology. Like:
Straight sides burrs are good for thick nails and narrow side burrs are used to reach into nail borders.
These are used for treating nail side walls while doing manicure and removing the unevenness of the nails. Can also be used for grinding heels and balls of the feet.
Whereas,
There are many carbide burrs which are used for different industrial purpose like aerospace, machinery, stone, dentistry, metalsmith, railway, automotive and others. These burrs are used to deburring, shaping, chamfering, toolmaking, grinding, welding, sculpting, cylinder head porting.
Mostly industrial burrs are used on steel, copper, brass, zinc, aluminum, titanium, bronze, titanium, and many more.
Uses Of Nail Burrs:
- For thickening nails, coarse diamond burrs are used.
- Fine diamond burr is best for giving a simple touch to the nails.
- Taper diamond burr is best to reduce nails to ingrown sides of the nail.
- Straight cutting edge facilitates the consistent reduction of the nail plate that makes the nail plate equally thick.
- For thinning the flat surface of the nail using a larger flat side of the burr.
- Can use to treat tiny areas that need to be clean and smooth.
Types Of Nail Burrs:
Nail burrs are available in different shapes and sizes for defining different types of nails like thin nails, thicker nails, and others.
- British Diamond Burrs: These burrs are made with high-quality British Steel with Diamond coating. Ideal burrs to use on thin and thicker nails. As some of these burrs have pointed shapes that provide thinning of nails by entering into small spaces.
- German Diamond Burrs: These are made of high quality and helps to shape the difficult areas of nail or skin.
- Specialty Carbide Burrs: It has a very smooth working and easily removes callus and clean cuticle. Also, it has two different cuts within one burr, i.e, Coarse and Fine Segments. These burrs are mostly recommended to diabetics.
- Tapers Skinny Burrs: It comprises many diameters like the wider one is good for the elimination of difficult corners and edges and narrow ones for thin the sides of ingrown nails. These burrs are ideal for the treatment of incurvated nails and ingrown nails.
- Rosebud Diamond Burrs: It is made of long-lasting carbide. These are also perfect for removing small and painful corns. They also are used on toenail deformities.
- Hurricane Specialty Burrs: It has holes that protect from excess heat and facilitate dust removal. These are best for flaky heels, and its flat sides help to reduce thick nails.
- Diamond Wheel Desks: These burrs are best for shortening the nails. As it helps to thinning and smoothing the tight areas on smaller nails.
- Lamella or Saw Burrs: Ideal for thru and elongated toenails. It helps to remove severely elongated nails and refine it without pain or problems.
- Diabetic-friendly TiAIN Burrs: Titanium Aluminium Nitride helps to reflect the heat from the nails & calluses. This is the best fit for sensitive or high-risk skin and has longer burr life.
The best part of all these burrs is that they are suitable for autoclave or disinfectant solutions.
INDUSTRIAL BURRS
Uses Of Industrial Burrs
- Industrial carbide burrs are used in air tools like die grinders, high-speed engravers, micro motors, flexible shafts, pendant drills.
- These are used to remove heavy stock, milling, deburring, and cleaning.
- Ball-shaped carbide burrs can be used to create a concave cut in your materials or to make a hollow space.
- These are widely used for engineering, model engineering, wood carving, jewelry making, welding, and many more.
- These burrs are used in surgical equipment that is grafted by stainless steel or titanium. It helps to sharpened the tools that create a finer edge and makes it durable.
- Dentistry uses carbide burrs for doing filling in a tooth.
Carbide is used to design jewelry as you can mold and shape it according to your wish.
The industries which are using such carbide burrs helps to reduce costs of production, from the medical industry to the construction industry, carbide burrs have increased its usefulness.
Types Of Industrial Burrs
Industrial Burrs comes in different shapes, sizes, and ranges. These burrs are used according to the different kinds of material applications. Here are different types of industrial burrs that can be used in industries.
- Long Shank Burrs: Long shank burrs are specially designed, for tough and hard materials. These are recommended to use with a good grinder. It comes in different shapes and sizes.
- Inverted Cone Burrs: Inverted Cone Burrs are used for deburring, making v-cuts. Best used for alloy steel or steel. These burrs are used for a single cut or double cut grinds for deburring.
- Tree Shaped with Pointed End Burr: Tree-shaped pointed burr is best fit to cut materials like plastics, steels, ferrous materials. It is made of high-quality tungsten carbide, which is long-lasting.
- Tree Shaped with Radius End Burr: Tree-shaped with radius end has high-quality carbide burr that is sharp and durable. These burrs perform better than HSS at high temperatures.
- Cone Shaped Burr: Cone burrs have a double cut design, which provides fast removal of material. These are used for deburring, machining of narrow angles. Best suitable for hardened and unhardened steel, stainless steel, brass, copper.
- Flame Shaped Burrs: Flame Burrs provides fast removal of material with a smooth finish. They are used at high speed and high temperatures. And also used for detailed carving tasks, and weld removal, chamfering, and deburring.
- Ball Shaped: These burrs are specially designed, for small detailed work, like jewelry. It is used on a wide range of materials like metal, plastics, and wood. These burrs are mostly used at high speeds.
- Oval Shaped: Oval Burrs are used in cleaning and maintain surfaces, die sinking, metalworking in mold, and pattern making. These burrs are made of heat-treated carbide which is sharp and long durable. Best for the removal of soft materials like Aluminium, Brass, Copper, Plastics.
The industrial burrs are also available in different cuts like single cut, double cut, aluminum cut, diamond cut, VA Cut, GRP Cut. And these different types of cuts are used for different kinds of materials and applications.
Major Difference Between Nail Burrs And Industrial Burrs
From the above Nail information, it is clear that nail burrs are used to shape, treat the nails, and remove unevenness from the nails. But industrial burrs are used to deburring, chamfering, sculpting, milling, and cleaning the material or applications.
Nail burrs are use on nails or grinding heels and balls of the foot. While, industrial burrs are work with metals, copper, bronze, platinum, steel, ferrous or non-ferrous materials.
Nail carbide burrs are used in nail salons but, industrial burrs are used by engineers or fabricators in aerospace, dentistry, railway, stone, and metalsmiths industries.
Tips For Using The Carbide Burrs
- Don’t use much pressure while cutting any material, as this will helps you to make your burr works long-lasting.
- Do not leave your burr in the same position for a long time. Keep it moving around the object. As it can causes marks on an object.
- The carbide burrs work better than HSS at high temperatures.
- The material you are working with defines the speed to be used. But it’s better not to increase the speed from 3500 RPM.
So, after using these tips and selection of right type, shape and size of the burr according to your material and business requirement you can increase its durability and gets better result