Thin Section Machine

Rubbing pre grinding thin section grinding polishing for all these steps only one machine is needed.

Thin section machine. The production of thin sections is a multistep process which requires highly specialized equipment. The lm 500 is a bench floor single plate lapping machine utilized to flatten the chip face which will be glued to a slide and to perform the final thin section sample thickness reduction. Mineralogical specimens will be described in more detail below.

The kemet range of geological sample preparation equipment can cater for high or low volume production. The petrothin thin sectioning system is a precise easy to use precision thin section cutting machine for re sectioning and thinning a wide variety of samples such as rocks and minerals ceramics concrete bone and teeth for performing materials characterization. The pelcon automatic thin section machine is designed for the production of thin section specimens of concrete rocks sand or aggregate samples to be used for optical polarization microscopy and petrographic microstructural analysis.

Preparing thin sections requires highly specialized equipment and skills because the specimen is extremely thin generally around 20 microns for observations with transmitted light microscope. The powerful apparatus can simultaneously process up to 6 chips or 24 thin sections with an exceptionally high degree of surface finish. Equipped with logitech semi automated lapping and polishing machines the thin section lab is able to hold roughly a one micron flatness tolerance during the critical phases of thin section preparation.

Combining the equipment the consumables the work process and method depends on the type of specimen. Universal laboratory grinding machine for rubbing and thin sections. A general workflow is described.

A thin section cut off saw and grinder have been incorporated into one unit.