Grinding

Corded Grinders

DEWALT launches five corded grinders featuring efficient brushless motors that offer durability without requiring brush changes and provide unique user protection features.

Overcoming the challenges when precision grinding aerospace metals

Some strange light and soft metals used in aerospace applications have proven to be difficult to precision abrasive grind because they are stringy, gummy, load wheel surfaces easily, get hot quickly and have slow material-removal rates. These include stainless steel alloys and nickel-base materials.

Fine-tuning a grinding process

Usually, a grinding process can be improved by simply picking the low-hanging fruit. Grinding wheel manufacturer Meister Abrasives USA Inc., North Kingstown, R.I., recommends trying that approach first by selecting a single variable and significantly changing it.

ANCA Group appoints Christopher Hegarty

Christopher Hegarty was appointed ANCA Group CEO, succeeding Grant Anderson.

What do you do when your orders outpace your production?

Since 1978, Moore’s Ideal Products, LLC (MIP) in Covina, California has designed and manufactured parts and tools for high-performance RC race cars. Recently MIP experienced a sharp increase in demand for their products, especially their world-renowned hex wrenches. MIP needed to increase their production without sacrificing the production or development of other products.

Optimizing grinding and dressing with 'dressing speed ratio' parameter

To achieve the quality and productivity requirements for most precision grinding operations, it is necessary that the grinding wheel is trued and dressed prior to grinding and periodically during the grinding operation. The truing process is initially carried out to correct for any wheel runout, create the required profile on the wheel, and condition the grinding wheel face.

Gearing up for IMTS 2018

Once again, the International Manufacturing Technology Show is right around the corner. IMTS 2018 takes place Sept. 10-15 at Chicago's McCormick Place, which is literally just down the road from where I live.

Bench Grinder Safety Gauge

OSHA 29 CFR SubPart O 1910.215 for bench grinders is one of the most frequently cited machine-safety standards for violations during OSHA inspections, and one of the most dangerous to ignore. OSHA 1910.215 is a "machine specific" (vertical) regulation with a number of requirements, which if left unchecked, are often cited by OSHA as violations.

Episode 89: Stop workpiece shapeshifting

The Grinding Doc examines the forces at work when cylindrical grinding produces round workpieces one minute, then something resembling a fried egg or a flower the next.

Gaining control of a blanchard grinder

06/20/2018

Adding a CNC to a Blanchard grinder makes the machine easier to operate and maintain.

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