Grinding Solutions for Aerospace

Grinding Solutions for Aerospace

Aircraft manufacturers are focusing on new engine styles that burn fuel more economically. These new lean-burning engines operate at temperatures that significantly exceed the safe operating levels of today’s nickel-based superalloy engine...

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Grinding machine

Grinding machine

A grinding machine, often shortened to grinder, is a power tool (or machine tool) used for grinding. It is a type of machining using an abrasive wheel as the cutting tool. Each grain of abrasive on the wheel’s surface cuts a small chip from...

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Basics of centerless grinding

Basics of centerless grinding

Centerless grinding is critical to manufacturing many high-volume automotive components. These include valve spools, control rods, camshafts, crankshafts, pistons, sleeves and rollers. In addition, centerless grinding is applied to produce parts...

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Grinding with a taper

Grinding with a taper

Dear Doc: We cylindrical-traverse-grind long steel parts. We must follow a specification from 1970 that stipulates “traverse maximum one-eighth of the wheel width per workpiece revolution,” which is contrary to what you preach regarding using...

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Up-grinding vs. down-grinding

Up-grinding vs. down-grinding

Dear Doc: I took your course, and you said that in 99% of grinding operations there’s no significant difference between up-grinding and down-grinding. But I think that our case falls in that 1%. Due to centrifugal expansion, we have to...

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