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Episode 53: Switching to CBN?
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, Cutting Tool Engineering magazine’s “Ask the Grinding Doc” columnist, offers a checklist for shops thinking about making the switch from aluminum-oxide to CBN. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 52: Evaluating coolants
A coolant supplier having trouble getting customers to try a new product turned to the Grinding Doc for some insight into how to convince shops to change their coolant. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 51: Any sweet shortcuts?
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, who writes our Ask the Grinding Doc column, fields a question from a shop hoping to find a faster way to find the sweet spot when cylindrical-plunge grinding tugsten-carbide shafts. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 50: Keep the sweet spot
A shop that cylindrical-grinds tungsten-carbide is running into trouble maintaining optimal parameters when switching to a larger diameter. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, Cutting Tool Engineering magazine’s Ask the Grinding Doc columnist, offers some insight. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 49: A creeping burn
A shop seeks relief from the burn experienced during its creep-feed grinding operations. Given that slowing down the feed rate only helped a little, and only for a short time, the shop for an alternative solution from Dr. Jeffrey Badger, our Ask the Grinding Doc columnist.
Episode 48: What pressure?
Dr. Jeffrey Badger fields a question from a shop grinding hardened steel with a CBN wheel. Though the shop is using a high-pressure cleaning nozzle, it doesn't seem to help much. The shop wants to know how much pressure they need in the nozzle? Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 47: Reducing wheel consumption
The Grinding Doc suggests a shop look at its dressing policy if it hopes to reduce its wheel consumption. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 46: Rough start
A shop using electroplated grinding wheels has observed a horrible surface finish on the first several parts produced by a new wheel. Though the surface finish gradually improves, the shop turned to the Grinding Doc for a solution to the problem. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 45: Is it really worth it to use a CBN wheel?
A shop is grinding hardened steel, and periodically switches between a CBN wheel and an aluminum-oxide wheel. Given that the shop is getting pretty much the same material removal rate, surface finish and cycle times with both wheels, shop staff are beginning to wonder if it is really worth it to use a CBN wheel.
Episode 44: Getting toast with your plunge roll?
A shop recently asked Dr. Jeffrey Badger, Cutting Tool Engineering magazine’s Ask the Grinding Doc columnist, to settle an argument about which way to run the dresser when rotary plunge diamond dressing aluminum-oxide wheels. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 43: Getting the wheel to open up
The Grinding Doc helps a shop having trouble getting its CBN wheel to open up before it burns the first few hardened steel parts, which then must be scrapped. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
Episode 42: Appearances can be deceiving
Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop that’s burning through traverse diamond dressing discs in the 42nd episode of Cutting Tool Engineering’s Grinding Doc video series. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.
