Where can I buy cerium oxide glass polishing powder?

Hello, Can someone tell me where I can buy cerium oxide glass polishing powder? I prefer to buy it from a distributor. Thanks.

Mike

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Mike J.
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Somermaca or CR Laurance

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Javahut

I will try them.

Does anyone know any other distributors? Thanks a lot.

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Mike J.

They are by far the biggest. Make life easy, use them. Both are on the internet

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) I see that the later has sort of blocked access, you can search but not price - just put cerium oxide in the little search box at top. You can get an account number just by asking, say you want to pay with a credit card.

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Mike Firth

Can someone recommend just one or two other smaller distributors?

Sommca sells 4 polishing compounds: Lite, Bright, Premier, and Glass Polishing. I couldn't figure out the differences and their respective applications. Thanks for your help.

Mike

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Mike J.

What are you doing with it? Are you a beveler that has never bought any? That would help.

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Javahut

Yes. You are correct. We also do polishing.

C.R.Laurence has just one type of Cerium Oxide, that makes it easy to choose from, but they are very expensive.

Thanks for your help.

Mike

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Mike J.

a lot.

OK, well, I may not be of much help here and I will explain why.

I bought a 5 gal pail from CRLaurance a few years ago, like over 5 years ago. Still using the same pail, and it is just now getting near the bottom. I may buy more in March or April, I bevel often, nearly daily.

A word of advise to save your polishing time, (time=$), buy the best you can afford. Good Cerium will save you time on the polisher. If this is a hand operation, you will see the difference in inches produced, if it is for "them new fangled high speed EYE-talian machines, you sill still see it in inches produced. If it is a matter of not needing a big pail, I'll split one with you, where are you located? Maybe better send a note off the group from here out, the above holds true for anyone thinking of beveling.

Let me know where you are located.

Incidentally, I know of NO small distributors of the stuff, if they are out there, they aren't advertising it.

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Javahut

You can get cerium from Glastar. (direct)

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Moonraker

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call the number on the page. They sell it by the pound.

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nJb

I use LENSMAX A./Optical Manufacturers, Downer Grove, IL. Order # 1-800-323-7157. Best stuff I have used to date. Not cheap. Ask if they will send you a sample. Usally a baggie full. You will like it I am sure. Dennis Swan, Artglass Beveling, Muncie, Indiana

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Dennis Swan

How would you differentiate between Lensmax's properties and those of CRL's cerium oxide? What is the difference in how they work? Is the Lensmax orange in color, too? What do you pay for it?

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Moonraker

It is orange in color. I do not get into the make up of products, I just requested samples from different places and this stuff works the best for me, I can not find an invoice but I belive it is about 200 a bucket. I use this in hand beveling and just add water till it is all mixed, I have never worried about Ph ect. I go through about a bucket a year and order two at a time. that is why I belive I paid a little over 400 with shipping two years ago. In fact I will be ordering in the next month or so. Dennis

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Dennis Swan

From the description and price, It sounds similar to CRL Rare Earth, 44lb pail, about the same, maybe a little more.

The thing is, with all these products, we will all have favorite suppliers of key ingredients, while Dennis prefers one brand and I another and someone else likes what they use. All good stuff, but the original post was for smaller quantities, from a smaller distributor. Does Lensmax come in smaller containers than the $200 pail?

Because I don't buy it that way, and it doesn't sound like Dennis does either, does anyone else? May be stuck with buying more to save from buying it more often and save the money on the larger purchase. Bet the small container is more money per lb.

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Javahut

Rio Grande has cerium oxide in 1 lb. lots for 9.95. Kingly north has it in

1 lb. 8.95, 5 lb. 35.95, and 30 lb. 184.00 m

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Michele Blank

Rio Grande has cerium oxide in 1 lb. lots for 9.95. Kingsley North has it in

1 lb. 8.95, 5 lb. 35.95, and 30 lb. 184.00 m
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Michele Blank

Somaca Rare Earth 44lb $228.17 CRL 44# $222.99

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Javahut

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can't say how good they are. Order the 4oz size for $3.00 and give it atry. Chunk Kiesling

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chunk

Mike,

Greetings from the future! Although the last posting to this thread was in 2004 I thought I would share some of my own experiences regarding polishing powder for hand beveled glass with other bevelers who may have similar questions and will more then likely come across this discussion when they do a search on this subject. In 1979 one of the glass shops where I was working as a beveler, we used Rareox 90 on a Somaca polishing machine with a 24" X 3" medium hard woolfelt ring with good results. We got the polishing powder from Sommer & Maca. After a short stint with this company I went on my own supplying stained glass shops in the Salt Lake City area with custom beveled glass. I used Rareox 90 for a couple of years thinking I was using some really good polishing powder and compared to Rareox 45 it was. One day I was speaking to a sales rep from Salem Distributing located in North Carolina. He told me about Cerox 1670 and that it was specifically made for hand polishing of beveled glass. I tried some and couldn't believe the difference. It wasn't just a small difference, it was like night and day. I've been using it ever since. Over the years I've tried many different polishing powders but nothing even comes close. Salem Distributing's Quest 90 also does a good job and is much less expensive then Cerox 1670. Get samples from Salem and see what you think.

Cheers, Timothy Trent Beveled Glass Arts

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Beveled Glass Arts

Are you still in the SLC area?

Jack

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nJb

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