Grinding

Water is an effective heat conductor, and, if you get an adequate supply of coolant within the pores of the wheel, the coolant will absorb about 70 percent of the heat.

Cutting Tool Engineering's Ask the Grinding Doc columnist, Dr. Jeffrey Badger, advises a shop hoping to avoid grinding burn.

High-speed grinding can provide great gains when grinding outside diameters.

A shop seeks insight from our Ask the Grinding Doc columnist, Dr. Jeffrey Badger, regarding the premature fatigue failure of pistons that seem fine when they go out the door. Could grinding be the culprit for these pistons cracking after just 5 weeks?

At a trade show, a company displayed a grinding wheel with slots, where coolant is poured into the center of the wheel and then ejected into the grinding zone. What's your take on this design?

New and traditional part grinding technologies combine to control vibration and improve precision.

A company running a centralized coolant system with neat oil seeks help from the Grinding Doc. The shop's oil supplier is promising great things if the shop switches to a newer oil product. But it seems like such a grand undertaking.

A review of metalworking products as compiled by the editors of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

The Grinding Doc responds to a shop that is cylindrical-plunge grinding a threadlike shape into tungsten carbide, and is getting grinding burn on the leading face, but not the trailing face.

A new vitrified-bond technology for grinding wheels.