Rush Machinery hires electrical technician

Rush Machinery hires electrical technician

Rush Machinery hires an electrical technician who is a graduate of the Finger Lakes Technical Center.n

September 6, 2022
Grinding (Surface, Cylindrical, Tool & Cutter) Machining People & Companies

Rush Machinery has hired Zachary Gavette as a new electrical technician.

Gavette is a graduate of the Finger Lakes Technical and Career Center in Stanly, N.Y. where he was given the Daniel L. Paddock Award for his outstanding work on electrical systems.

Rush Machinery builds and services an extensive line of production and support machines for industries that use diamond and CBN wheels and work with carbide and other hard materials.

The company's machines are for truing and grinding wheels using a single- or multi-point diamond or other tool. The process also exposes unused, sharp abrasive points. See loa…" title="Removal of undesirable materials from “loaded” grinding wheels using a single- or multi-point diamond or other tool. The process also exposes unused, sharp abrasive points. See loa…" aria-label="Glossary: dressing">dressing diamond/CBN wheels; cutting off carbide/HSS rods and tools; cutting, prepointing, and chamfering carbide/HSS rods; chamfering carbide/HSS rods; balancing wheels and tools; grinding PCD tools; filtering grinding oil; and sharpening drills and tools.

Glossary terms in this article

  • chamfering
    Machining a bevel on a workpiece or tool; improves a tool’s entrance into the cut.
  • dressing
    Removal of undesirable materials from “loaded” grinding wheels using a single- or multi-point diamond or other tool. The process also exposes unused, sharp abrasive points. See loa…
  • grinding
    Machining operation in which material is removed from the workpiece by a powered abrasive wheel, stone, belt, paste, sheet, compound, slurry, etc. Takes various forms: surface grin…
  • carbide
    Compound of carbon and one or more metallic elements. For cutting tools, tungsten carbide, titanium carbide, tantalum carbide or a combination of these in a cobalt or nickel matrix…
  • diamond
    Cubic crystalline form of carbon produced under extreme pressures at elevated temperatures. The hardest natural substance, it has approximately five times the indentation hardness…
  • truing
    Using a diamond or other dressing tool to ensure that a grinding wheel is round and concentric and will not vibrate at required speeds. Weights also are used to balance the wheel…

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