Grinding

«mini-contour» Wheel Sharpening Machine

Lach Diamond Inc. developed «mini-contour» machines, a special sharpening machine that can produce high-precision concave and convex profiles from 2 to 4 µm and is suitable for re-sharpening the company's »contour-profiled« grinding wheels.

»contour-profiled« Profile Grinding Wheel

Lach Diamond Inc. offers a grinding wheel with a metal bond for deep grinding – hitherto almost unthinkable. For the first time, newly developed bond variations are available for profiling during the deep grinding of carbide, high-alloyed steel, ceramics and, in a special specification, even unhardened steel.

Episode 99: Spiraling out of control

The Grinding Doc helps a shop understand the source of the spiral marks showing up on a part, then offers a potential solution in the 99th episode of CTE's Grinding Doc video series.

How to avoid embedded particles

03/24/2020

Author:

Jeffrey A. Badger, Ph.D.

The Grinding Doc offers a six-step solution to an uncommon problem.

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Experience and advanced grinding leads to million-hole drill

It took six years of experimentation and trial and error along with tool grinding know-how for West Ohio Tool Co., a specialty cutting tool shop in Russells Point, Ohio, to develop its own commercially available cutting tool. The revolutionary tool is a solid PCD drill that generates from 800,000 to 1,000,000 holes in die cast aluminum without regrind or re-tipping required.

United Grinding rebuilds new productivity life into 45,000-hour machine

After 14 years in service, a Studer S40 grinding machine that had over 45,000 hours of run time now produces precision components to tolerances it achieved when brand new. The Studer factory in Switzerland performed the rebuild that involved completely overhauling the machine, and while doing so also provided the machine’s owner LMT Kieninger with a loaner to ensure the customer’s production would continue uninterrupted.