Long, hard life: General Industry Coverage
One of the Look Ahead features in this month's Cutting Tool Engineering magazine covers a new CBN superabrasive for grinding wheels that extends wheel life and lowers grinding forces.
The aerospace industry is grinding more hardened ferrous metals and nickel-base superalloys and the automotive industry is grinding more difficult-to-machine drivetrain components. As a result, Element Six Ltd. introduced the ABN900 CBN superabrasive for electroplated grinding wheels to tackle those challenges, according to Ned Vaughan, the superabrasive material manufacturer’s product manager for precision grinding. “There are a multitude of other applications, especially where you’re looking to generate a form on a steel component,” he said, “but the predominant applications where we see benefits are in aerospace and automotive.”
Courtesy of Element Six
A scanning electron microscope image shows Element Six’s ABN900 80/100 U.S. mesh grit size.
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December 2011
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