wheel flange
Metal plate inside the grinding-wheel hole that allows the wheel to be mounted on a spindle.
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wheel-balancing stand
Used to ensure that a grinding wheel is balanced before mounting it on the machine.
white cast iron
Cast iron that shows a white fracture. The material is free from graphite carbon because of its chemical composition.
width of cut
Width of the milled surface, reflecting a face milling cutter’s radial engagement, and a peripheral milling cutter’s axial engagement, in t…
wiper
Metal-removing edge on the face of a cutter that travels in a plane perpendicular to the axis. It is the edge that sweeps the machined surf…
Woodruff cutter
Milling cutter used for cutting keyways.
work envelope
Cube, sphere, cylinder or other physical space within which the cutting tool is capable of reaching.
workhardening
Tendency of all metals to become harder when they are machined or subjected to other stresses and strains. This trait is particularly prono…
work-squaring bar
Mounts to the table of a contour band machine and automatically squares the work to the blade.
yield point
First stress in a material, usually less than the maximum attainable stress, at which an increase in strain occurs without an increase in s…
yield strength
Stress at which a material exhibits a specified deviation from proportionality of stress and strain. An offset of 0.2 percent is used for m…
zone melting
Highly localized melting, usually by induction heating, of a small volume of an otherwise solid piece, usually a rod. By moving the inducti…