Choosing the Best Cutting, Grinding and Flap Discs for Your Job
The Equinox range of abrasives offers an essential range of cut off discs, grinding and flap discs ,engineered to take on even the toughest applications.
This range is put through the most stringent of testing to meet exceptionally high standards. By sourcing European engineering, innovation and technology, Equinox delivers a market leading product which adheres to the highest standards.
With Equinox, you can be assured of the quality of its performance, and the integrity of the supply chain. Ethical Sourcing is as important as the quality of the end product. All Equinox products are compliant to Australian Standards, AS 17881.1-1987 Abrasive Wheels – Design, Construction, and Safeguarding.
Here's our guide for which Equinox disc is best for your application:
Thin cutting discs
Industries:
Everywhere, where metals are treated and cut, especially car and truck industry, tank production, container production, shipyards.
Materials:
Thin sheet metal, steel cables, thin-walled profiles and pipes of stainless steel, steel, non-ferrous metals.
Advantages:
Precise cut with minimal physical effort, extremely fast, maximum service life and ultimate efficiency, low-burr to burr-free edges, no blue discolouration of the workpiece due to heat, also suitable for battery-powered angle-grinders, less loss in material.
Traditional cutting discs
Industries:
Everywhere, where metals are treated and cut, especially tank production.
Materials:
Sheet steel, standard steel, unalloyed and alloyed construction steel, very solid construction steel, tool steel, angular steel profiles.
Advantages:
Good cutting speed, long service life, low-burr to burr-free edges.
Grinding discs
Industries:
Pipeline construction, metal construction, foundries, steel construction, plant engineering, crane construction, manufacturing of building machines.
Materials:
High-strength construction steel, tool steel, high-speed steel, sheet steel, unalloyed and alloyed construction steel.
Advantages:
Medium-hard bond for easy grinding, high removal rate, very long service life.
Flap discs
Industries:Steel and stainless steel construction.
Materials:
Stainless steel, steel, cast iron, unalloyed and alloyed construction steel, very solid construction steel, tool steel, steel sheet, high alloy special steel, stainless steel sheet, cast iron.
Advantages:
Ideal for work on edges, very good for surface grinding, outstanding grinding performance with superior lifetime, high removal rate and effortless work without clogging, very good surface quality on workpiece.