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Abrasive grinding wheels, abrasives
News Release from: Tyrolit | Subject: Aluminium oxide wheels
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 September 2006
Aluminium oxide wheels can be customised
As well as having excellent profile-holding characteristics, aluminium oxide wheels can contain sintered as well as fused abrasive grains, allowing long-life, customised wheels to be manufactured.
Sintered, aluminium oxide grains in a vitrified-bond grinding wheel offer significant performance benefits over fused grains, rivalling the performance of superabrasives like cubic boron nitride (CBN) However, to maintain their sharpness and strength, sintered grains need a low-temperature bond, which is weaker and does not hold profile form as well as high-temperature bonds
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new bond has extreme form-holding characteristics, requiring minimal dressing, leading to long wheel life.
At the same time, it allows the creation of highly porous, free-cutting wheels, avoiding burn and chatter marks on the component.
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Notably, the bond system can be used with all abrasive grains, either expensive sintered varieties or conventional fused grains, or a mixture of the two types in any proportion.
In other words, users can now specify their own bespoke grinding wheel by optimising the cost and performance characteristics so that they last longer, or cut faster (up to 125m/s) or with lower forces for producing delicate, difficult-to-machine parts in exotic materials.
To assist the correct choice of wheel for different applications, CSS-Ultra products are manufactured in four colour coded ranges, eg orange for grinding crankshaft main and pin bearings; blue for face and journal grinding.
In addition, a range of highly porous wheels using the same bond will be launched shortly which can be used for creep feed grinding of turbine industry components.
Compared with using aluminium oxide grinding wheels with fused abrasive grains, price-performance ratios can be increased by as much as 50% using CSS-Ultra, claims Tyrolit.
Application examples include grinding a C38MOD crankshaft of Rockwell hardness 58 to 62 HRC on a Naxos machine at 50m/s.
A 30% increase in infeed rate was achieved when grinding the shoulders.
Two hubs were machined per 0.04mm dressing.
A 30% reduction in dressing amount to 0.005mm as well as a smaller variation in surface finish and 10% lower part temperature resulted when using a CSS-Ultra wheel to machine 100CR6 spherical rollers on an FAG grinder at 80m/s cutting speed.
Fifteen rollers were produced per dressing.
When grinding a turbocharger rotor on a Schaudt ZX11 at 50m/s, wheel life was extended by 50%.
Taps were also produced efficiently without burning, even those with narrow thread angles, as evidenced by grinding of M5 to M8 high speed steel taps, hardened to 64 to 66 HRC, on a Reishauer GBA at 80m/s.
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