Abrasives, Belts, Brushes, Grinding Wheels
This category includes systems and materials used to shape or finish a workpiece by using friction to wear away small particles of the piece. The abrasive process can be used to either smooth and polish the workpiece’s surface or to roughen it. Many abrasives incorporate a bonding system, where grains are held together with a fixative (grinding wheels), and coated systems, where abrasive grains are imbedded into a paper backing or a cloth. The groups of abrasive components include ceramic grain abrasives, silicon abrasives, aluminum oxides, and superabrasives (diamond and cubic boron nitride).
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Discover the latest product advances to apply in your machine shop’s finishing processes. Find out what’s new with abrasives, belts, brushes and grinding wheels.
Discover the latest product advances to apply in your machine shop’s finishing processes. Find out what’s new with abrasives, belts, brushes and grinding wheels.
Grinding wheels, flap discs and fiber discs require a great deal of care and storage to ensure safe use of these abrasive products. Never use a damaged wheel or disc. When stored correctly and used properly, wearing the correct PPE, wheels and discs assist in building, repairing and creating many of the objects around us.
Choosing the right product for heavy material removal or getting into hard-to-reach places goes a long way.
Many shops hesitate to incorporate abrasive finishing tools in CNC machines for fear of clogging coolant lines and damaging slides and bearings. However, finishing tools generate very little grit.
Multipass welds are often required in pipeline, ship, heavy-duty structural and pressure vessel construction. Selecting the proper abrasives and cleaning properly between each pass can help optimize results, saving the operation time and money.
Saint-Gobain Abrasives (Worcester, MA) has introduced its new, high-performance Norton IDeal-Prime internal diameter grinding wheels for precision applications.
Saint-Gobain Abrasives has introduced Norton Quantum Prime grinding wheels, which feature new, proprietary, nanocrystalline ceramic grain that offers productivity gains across a wide range of applications.
The Sigma Z grinding wheel has been launched by Rex-Cut Abrasives for use on stainless steel, carbon steel, mild steel, galvanized steel, and alloys.
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