General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger 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 […]

For the 21st episode of the Grinding Doc video series on the Cutting Tool Engineering Plus Web site, a shop asked Dr. Jeffrey Badger whether it’s better to up-grind or down-grind? Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

A shop grinding tungsten carbide with a resin-bonded diamond wheel asked the Grinding Doc about the difference between two conditioning sticks purchased from two differrent suppliers. With one stick the shop can do a lot more parts between stickings. Why is this? Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at […]

Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger addresses whether minimum quantity lubrication is the future of grinding. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop weigh advice from two wheel salesmen. One says the sweet spot of a wheel is all about material-removal rates, while the other keeps talking about wheel speed. Who’s right? Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

A shop has two of the exact same machines, but one has a newer spindle. The shop is thinking about putting a new spindle on the second machine, but wants to know if there is any way to determine if one spindle is stiffer than the other? Dr. Jeffrey Badger responds in Episode 16 of […]

A shop performing continuous-dress, creep-feed grinding on nickel alloys contacted Dr. Jeffrey Badger for advice on battling burn while reducing wheel consumption. Check out Badger’s response in the latest episode of The Grinding Doc video series produced by CTEplus, the Web site for Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice […]

In this episode of the Grinding Doc Video Series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop resolve the chatter encountered when performing multi-pass cylindrical OD grinding. Though the shop keeps dropping the plunge speeds, nothing seems to help. What can they do? Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

Watch the latest episode of our Grinding Doc Video Series featuring Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the expert behind Cutting Tool Engineering magazine’s Ask the Grinding Doc column. In the latest installment of the video series, Badger responds to a recommendation for a wheel that will eliminate burr. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from […]

A grinding shop trying to grind a 0.006″ radius into a hardened steel part with a 60-grit, vitrified-bond, aluminum-oxide wheel was having trouble with burn and huge chatter. Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger explains how to handle the situation. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger looks at improving coolant velocity for shops running into loading problems with superabrasive wheels. Such wheels, he says, are more problematic than aluminum oxide wheels that wear away more readily. Superabrasive wheels, he notes, just don’t wear away very quickly. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey […]

Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger says don’t be timid when you stick your wheel. By doing so, he says, you can do more parts between wheel sticks—just be careful of the surface finish of the first few parts after sticking the wheel. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.