Several products and options are offered to help conveniently secure grinding and/or polishing discs to either standard or magnetic platens.
Platen accessories consist of products used to secure grinding, lapping and polishing discs to either standard or magnetized platens. They include:
Squeegees are used to apply plain back lapping films directly onto standard platens.
Standard Platens are precision lapped parallel, then hard anodized for maximum wear resistance. They are used with adhesive backed discs, double sided adhesive discs and disc holding bands, or when converting to a magnetic platen using magnetic bases.
Magnetic Platens combine a standard aluminum platen with a cross-hatched magnetic surface for maximum flatness and adherence. Only one platen is needed throughout the grinding and polishing process, allowing all magnetic system cloths/abrasive discs or ferromagnetic discs to be utilized.
Disc holding bands are made of anodized aluminum and secure plain back discs to a standard platen. A protrusion around the top of the band allows variable sized discs (± 3 mm) to be secured.