Grinding Doc Series

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.

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.

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.

Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger urges shops to dress quickly and take deep cuts to reduce cycle times. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.

Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger offers an overview of cylindrical OD plunge grinding in the seventh installment of our Grinding Doc video series. One of the great things about cylindrical grinding is that you can really play around with your parameters, Badger observes in the report. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.

What’s a good speed when cylindrical OD traverse grinding? Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger worries less about the speed, more about the percentage of the wheel being used to do the roughing. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.

Thinking about using cluster diamonds? Grinding Doc Jeffrey Badger suggests going at least 4x faster than with a single-point diamond. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.

In the third episode of the Grinding Doc video series, Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., takes a look at a common problem shops have with getting the surface finish that they want. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.

In the second episode of our Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger fields a question from a shop that hasn’t had any luck with ceramic abrasive. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.

The debut episode of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc video series fields a question from a shop wondering about the relationship between coolant velocity versus the flowrate. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, who writes the Ask the Grinding Doc column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, takes a look at the coolant issue for CTE Plus.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop struggling to maintain a 16 µin Ra surface finish using a 60-mesh grit size. On the advice of the wheel supplier, the shop tried 100- and 120-mesh grits only to end up with burned parts. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, a grinding consultant and author of The Grinding Doc column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, helps a grinding shop distinguish between true thermal damage and surface burn. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr.