So let me get this straight. You want to sell me a stationary dresser, which costs 3-5 times what I’m paying now?
This better be good!
In fact, if you are doing high production grinding and stationary dressing, it’s BETTER than good.
The advanced design of Meister Abrasive’s single point stationary dressers maintain an invariable dresser sharpness throughout thousands of dressing cycles. You gain exceptional process stability, invariable part quality, and yes, cost benefits that far outweigh the initial dresser cost.
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The key to Meister’s design is a proprietary diamond-encrusted porous hybrid bonding matrix which is designed to provide a consistent contact area throughout its life and can be reinforced with one or more CVD rods to provide the ultimate profile stability. While this design is more costly to manufacture than standard tools on the market, the benefit is definitely worth the investment. No more rotating or replacing the tool because of dull or blunted contact surfaces, and no more need to adjust the process to compensate for changing conditions.
Other benefits include:
- Reduced dressing forces
- Self-sharpening, does not dull the grinding wheel
- Cool cutting with uniform surface characteristics
- Consistent performance over the entire life of the dressing tool
- Consistent component quality
- Extended dressing intervals possible, resulting in improved wheel life
- Outstanding tool life with high potential cost savings.
Our case study: Single Point Dresser Optimization demonstrates the dramatic improvement made by this new tool design to an internal grinding application for inner bearing rings.
And yes, it’s not unusual for one of our field Application Engineers to encounter a response like our hypothetical doubter above. To which we respond: “Let’s run a trial and prove it.”
Remember: when it comes to dressing tools…you DO get what you pay for!
