Videos

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. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

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. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

Are diamonds a machine shop’s best friend? Dr. Jeffrey Badger takes a close look at the question in the 41st episode of the Grinding Doc video series. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

In the 40th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering’s Web-based Grinding Doc Video Series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop that’s getting cracking at the corner radius of a tungsten-carbide part. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

A shop experiencing on-again, off-again waviness issues during cylindrical OD grinding operations asks Dr. Jeffrey Badger why the problem comes and goes in the 39th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering’s Grinding Doc Video Series. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

In this 38th episode of the Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop deal with the brown, yellow and blue marks that keep appearing on an unground surface. He addresses the difference between oxidation burn, or rust, and genuine thermal damage. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey […]

A shop that grinds tungsten-carbide endmills using a resin-bonded diamond wheel turned to Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the author behind our Ask the Grinding Doc column and video series, because one of the shop’s wheel suppliers keeps talking about Q prime values. According to the supplier, the shop should be using a Q prime value of […]

Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, through its Website CTEplus, presents the 36th episode of the Grinding Doc Video Series. Dr. Jeffrey Badger addresses grit size versus chatter. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, Cutting Tool Engineering magazine’s “Ask the Grinding Doc” columnist, shares a number of photos taken at extreme magnification to reveal wheel wear and much more in the the 35th episode of our Grinding Doc Video Series. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

A shop that grinds tungsten carbide with resin-bonded diamond wheels asked Dr. Jeffrey Badger for help to settle a disagreement over how hard to stick the wheel. Plus, now that there are machines with auto-stickers, shop staffers are even more confused. Badger offers some suggestions in the 34th episode of The Grinding Doc Video Series. […]

Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop determine an appropriate material-removal rate in this 33rd episode of The Grinding Doc video series. Visit The Grinding Doc website for more advice from Dr. Jeffrey Badger at http://www.thegrindingdoc.com.

Shop Ingenuity is the first in a planned series of video reports featuring shop innovations. In the debut episode, Cutting Tool Engineering visits with CNC Supervisor Jeffrey Johnson at Tuttle Manufacturing in Barrington, IL. Johnson set out to improve the production time for a part that the shop has been running every other month for a customer who continues to increase the order each time.