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Metal Loading in The Wheel During bore grinding you want your wheel to stay nice and clean, but sometimes it becomes caked with metal flakes. This condition is caused by metal loading and when it occurs the loaded areas produce Continue Reading →
It may seem counter-intuitive, but one of the most important focal points for achieving better grinding results is not the machine, the control or the grinding wheel. It’s your dresser. Selecting a better dresser and using it appropriately can have Continue Reading →
Fluctuations After Dress Problem: You are grinding a lot of parts between dressing cycles. Every part looks fine until you dress the wheel. Then the first one or two parts on the next cycle look horrible. It could be size or Continue Reading →
Surface Finish Too Rough I need to hold a certain surface finish and my parts are coming off too rough. I don’t have a finer grit wheel to try. What can I do? 1. Increase the wheel speed. This is Continue Reading →
During the past decade Meister Abrasives has made enormous strides in the development of grinding and dressing tool substrates with unique bonding matrices. We are simply not interested in developing “Me Too Products” that everyone else offers. These developments have Continue Reading →
I’m pleased to report that it has been another robust year for Meister here in the states. By year-end our sales are anticipated to have increased 18% over 2013. That reflects yet another year of steadily increasing sales against some still Continue Reading →
Staying In Shape Taper— discussed in a previous blog— always means that the walls of the bore are straight; they’re just not parallel. When we have shape problems the walls of the bore are neither straight nor parallel. They are Continue Reading →
Roundness … After taper, the next most common bore-grinding problem is roundness. Maintaining roundness to within the specification is critical to the ultimate performance of the component —affecting such things as lubricant retention and distribution, leakage, vibration levels, friction and ease Continue Reading →
The Short Course We don’t want to leave you hanging, so here is a list of the top ten bore grinding problems in order of the frequency with which we encounter them. Taper Roundness Shape Surface finish Unexpected changes after Continue Reading →
WHAT MAKES BORE GRINDING SO DIFFICULT? Bore grinding is one of the most difficult manufacturing capabilities to master. In fact, compared to bore grinding, external surface grinding is a piece of cake. Here’s why: 1. The cantilever effect: On Continue Reading →