Rush highlights balancing and wheel dressing truing machines

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Rush Machinery will showcase a balancing machine and a wheel truing and dressing machine at the 2022 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), being held at Chicago's McCormick Place from September 12–17. Rush Machinery can be found in Booth 237233.

September 2, 2022
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Rush Machinery will showcase a balancing machine and a wheel 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 machine at the 2022 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), being held at Chicago's McCormick Place from September 12–17. Rush Machinery can be found in Booth 237233.

The BMT-200TS Balancing Machine is designed for the balancing of mounted grinding wheels, wheel packs, and cutting tools. The features of this benchtop unit include self-calibration, automatic clamping and positioning, a clear safety cover, and a graphical user interface running on included laptop PC. There is also an onboard memory with 240 data sets (expandable as an option).

Balancing methods for the BMT-200TS are GRAMM with set screws at fixed arbor positions axially or radially; Split angle with balancing rings; Fixed position with set screws; Drilling; and Milling.

FC-350EX

The FC-350EX Wheel Truing and Dressing Machine is designed for truing and dressing flats, angles, and radii on diamond and CBN single wheels and multiple wheel packs. The FC-350EX is simple to operate, highly accurate, and cost-effective. Its features include a full enclosure for added safety, PLC controls for automatic precision infeed, oscillation, and pivoting of the truing wheel axis.

The machine also comes installed with RushVision with Autoview, a software designed to make truing and dressing easy and customizable. RushVision aids in high precision, high tolerance work, and truing complex forms and radii up to 2" (50mm). The software includes drawing templates for most common wheel shapes and allows users to import from CAD via USB port or networked PC.

The company's machines include truing and 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

  • calibration
    Checking measuring instruments and devices against a master set to ensure that, over time, they have remained dimensionally stable and nominally accurate.
  • chamfering
    Machining a bevel on a workpiece or tool; improves a tool’s entrance into the cut.
  • tolerance
    Minimum and maximum amount a workpiece dimension is allowed to vary from a set standard and still be acceptable.
  • 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…
  • drilling
    Operation in which a rotating tool is used to create a round hole in a workpiece. Drilling is normally the first step in machining operations such as boring, reaming, tapping, coun…
  • 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…
  • milling
    Machining operation in which metal or other material is removed by applying power to a rotating cutter. In vertical milling, the cutting tool is mounted vertically on the spindle…
  • 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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