Dressing With Diamond Dressing Tools

DRESSING WITH SINGLE POINT DIAMONDS

GUIDELINES

Wheel surface speed:

-dress at full working surfave speed

To avoid vibrations and therefore detrimental effects to the grinding wheel's topography,
the clamping length of fixed diamond tools should be chosed as short as possible.

Always use blade tool in such a fashion that the diamond-free section on the back of the blade touches the grinding wheel first. This will ensure a free-cutting dressing operation.

Apply ample amount of grinding fluid while dressing as diamonds are very heat sensitive. Ensure uninterrupted flow.

In order to increase the wheel's surface roughness, increase the crossfeed velocity v_d rather than increasing the depth of dressing infeed a_d.

Depth cut a_d = 0.005 to 0.02 mm (0.0002 to 0.0008 inch)

Guidelines for dressing crossfeed velocity v_d

n_s = grinding wheel RPM

v_d =n_s x 0.9
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