Face Lapping Machine

This Face Lopping Machine can take two forms. The first type of lapping (traditionally called grinding) typically involves rubbing a brittle material such as glass against a surface such as iron or glass itself (also known as the 'lap' or grinding tool) with an abrasive such as aluminum oxide, emery, silicon carbide, diamond, etc. In between them. This produces microscopic conchoidal fractures as the abrasive rolls between the surfaces and removes material from both. The other form of lapping involves softer material for the lap, which is charged with the abrasive. The lap is then used to cut a harder material the workpiece. The abrasive embeds within the softer material which holds it and permits it to score across and cut the harder material. Taken to the finer limit, this will produce a polished surface such as a polishing cloth on an automobile, or a polishing cloth or polishing pitch upon glass or steel.