Grinding Machines & Equipment

Jeff Badger, Ph.D., a grinding expert and the author of CTE's Grinding Doc column, provides a practical tour of the Truing Parameters Calculator he helped develop along with Rush Machinery and the International Grinding Institute.n

Rollomatic's six-axis GrindSmart 660XW allows users to employ an ultralean process that eliminates the need for multiple machines and setups.

Alfredo Barragan, Senior Corporate Application Engineer for Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives, discusses the new Paradigm Plus grinding wheel that offers a new premium grain technology for lower grinding forces, lower cutting energy, and is said to be ideal for customers utilizing lights-out production.

The belt grinder features two belt heads ensuring the ultimate flexibility to handle platen grinding, contact wheel grinding and even slack back grinding. Its design enables roughing to intermediate grinding to blending as well as final finishing and polishing.

Michael Coffey, a field service engineer for Rush Machinery, demonstrates a new 360-degree guard for the company's FC-350W wheel truing and dressing machine with Rush Vision and Auto View.

The Grinding Doc analyzes a case where choosing up or down makes a big difference.

The IG 282 SD rotary surface grinder is packed with innovative features making it more powerful, precise, and most importantly, even easier to use. This machine is the first DCM style rotary surface grinder to feature a precision servo drive cross slide motor that allows this machine to grind tight tolerances along both the Z and X axis.

VGrind 260, VGrind Neon and VGrind Argon – these are the names of the three new tool grinding machines from the sharpening specialist VOLLMER. They were presented for the first time at the GrindingHub 2022 trade fair in Stuttgart.

The S36 has a fixed grinding head, with grinding wheel angles of 0, 15 or 30 degrees available. The distance between centers is 650mm and the maximum workpiece weight is 150kg. Proven components have been used in the machine. These include a Granitan® machine bed and a workhead with high-precision roller bearings.

The new duo of VOLLMER grinding machines designed for machining carbide-tipped circular saw blades, is made up of the CS 860 and CSF 860.

The Grinding Doc addresses cylindrical grinding coolant and the affects of loading.

Star Cutter's NXT 5-axis Tool Grinder is a versatile 5-axis CNC machine featuring a small footprint and a large grind zone. The machine can run small and large diameter wheels and is designed in a modular fashion that offers quick adaptation to application requirements.