[ATM] slurry pump

[Bill Kelley]

Has anyone used an air lift pump for this purpose? No moving parts to be 
abraded by CeO or grit.
Bill Kelley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julio Sanchez" <jsanchez at skipanon.com>
To: <atm at atmlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [ATM] slurry pump


>I have a pretty nice (home made) grinding and polihing machine but I am 
>forced to babysit it and squirt polishing solution from a bottle. If I get 
>distracted a nasty accident occurs and, sometimes, there goes my blank. I 
>have read about commercial machines that use a slurry pump and keep the 
>glass floded during operations. How difficult is it to set up such a 
>system? Can I make the slurry by disolving Cerium Oxide in water? At what 
>rate? Are there small (cheap) pumps available that can do the job? Does the 
>slurry need to be filtered? And so on... Does anyone have some practical 
>info on this? I do have a spare coolant pump from a machine tool but it 
>seems like such an overkill.
> Thanks,
> Julio
>
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