Mastering Sample Preparation: Key Techniques, Essential Tools, and Best Practices
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How Much Diamond Suspension Do You Actually Need? Dosing, Priming, and Cost per Sample
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Less than most labs use. A properly charged cloth needs only a light initi...
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Lapping vs Polishing: The Difference, and When You Want Each One
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Lapping rolls loose abrasive between the sample and a hard flat plate, remo...
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How to Get a Deformation Free Surface for SEM and EBSD
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Electron backscatter diffraction reads the crystal lattice in roughly the ...
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How to Prepare Samples for Hardness Testing, and Why Bad Prep Quietly Falsifies Your Numbers
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Hardness testing measures the surface you give it, and if that surface carr...
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How to Choose a Diamond Wafering Blade for Precision Sectioning
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Match the bond to the material, and the rest follows. Metal bonded, sinter...
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How to Polish Soft Metals Like Aluminum and Copper Without Smearing Everything
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Soft metals smear because the abrasive plows them instead of cutting them. ...
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How to Pair Polishing Cloths With Each Abrasive Step
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products The rule that organizes everything: hard and napless early, soft and nappe...
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Hot Mounting or Cold Mounting: Choose Based on What Your Sample Can Survive
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Hot compression mounting is faster, cheaper per sample, and gives better ed...
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Water Based or Oil Based Diamond Suspension: A Two Minute Decision Guide
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Run water based diamond suspension unless your material gives you a specif...
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Smearing, Pull Out, Edge Rounding, and Relief: Diagnosing the Four Classic Polishing Artifacts
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Every one of these artifacts imitates a real material feature. Smearing hid...
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How a Petrographic Thin Section Is Made, and How You Know You Hit 30 Microns
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products A petrographic thin section is a slice of rock ground to 30 microns, thin ...
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What Micron Size Diamond Should You Use at Each Polishing Step?
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products The sequence our customers run more than any other is 9, 6, 3, then 1 micro...
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