The Manufacturing
Process of Precision Ball Products
- Raw
Material
At its beginning stages, a ball starts in wire or rod form.
Quality control goes through a metallurgic testing to ensure that
the material composition is within acceptable ranges.
- Heading
After the raw material has passed inspection, it is then
fed through a high speed header. This forms very rough balls.
- Flashing
The flashing process cleans up the headed balls so that
they are somewhat smooth in appearance.
- Heat
Treatment
An extremely high temperature process where the flashed
balls are placed in an industrial oven. This hardens the ball.
- Grinding
The ball is ground to the approximate diameter of the final ball
size.
- Lapping
The lapping of the ball brings it to it's desired final
dimension. This is the final forming process and gets the ball
within grade tolerances.
- Final
Inspection
The ball is then precisely measured and inspected by
Quality Control to ensure the highest quality.
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