Supercool
Find out more about a cryogenic lubrication technology based on supercritical CO2 in this month's Look Ahead feature.
Operation / Process
Grinding (Surface, Cylindrical, Tool & Cutter)
Determining actual wheel costs
Determining actual wheel costs and answers to other grinding questions can be found in this month's Grinding Doc column.
Flight Path
Triumph Actuation Systems makes systems that keep aircraft flying straight. Read more about the making of the systems that keep "big birds" in line.
AL100U-02 Pipe Notcher/Grinder
Scotchman Metal Fabricating Solutions introduces the Scotchman AL100U-02 Pipe Notcher/Grinder.
Grinder Shields
Rockford Systems Inc. has introduced a new line of electrically interlocked heavy-duty grinder and tool grinder shields.
Centerless grinding close-up
A 420 stainless steel part is ground on a Monza 410 centerless grinder at M&S Centerless Grinding.
All bark, no bite
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, fields a question from a shop taking smaller and smaller finishing passes and several spark-out passes in order to get tight tolerances and a good surface finish. But the shop is having trouble getting the wheel to bite into the workpiece. All it does is ride over the top, and the shop is using high-pressure oil. How can the shop get the wheel to bite? The Grinding Doc responds in this 23rd episode of the video series.
Software makes tool design easier
New grinding software makes tool design easier.
A Fine Grind
Technology, experience and attitude breeds grinding success—on a very small scale.
High-porosity wheel to rescue?
A shop with burn issues wants to know if a high-porosity wheel would reduce temperatures as suggested by the company's wheel supplier. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, offers some guidance in the 22nd episode of the video series.
Erosion Efficiency
Cutting Tool Engineering Editor Alan Richter includes a grinding machine that enables a PCD- or PCBN-tipped cutting tool to be processed in one setup for his August 2011 Look Ahead column.
Testing cutoff wheels
Cutoff wheel manufacturer inquires about a testing program to evaluate his product in the August 2011 Ask the Grinding Doc column in Cutting Tool Engineering.