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Precision grinding wheels have long been made using a vitrification process, firing a product, much like a piece of porcelain yet which is, in this case, a blend of abrasive grain, frit and silica, amongst other ceramic chemistry. Grinding wheels have also been made using a matrix of resins and plastics, as well as sintered metals. The advent of superabrasives spurned electro-plated wheels that require no dressing and can run at phenomenally high peripheral speeds. Creep-feed grinding challenged the wheel makers to build very open structure wheels, balancing a fine skeletal structure with sufficient strength to hold together under the forces of the grind. A further challenge was to build vitrified superabrasive wheels, with low temperature bond systems, that would also survive high peripheral wheel speeds. Grinding wheel technology is a science that is continually evolving and improving, extending wheel life, increasing productivity, but above all, providing better consistency from wheel to wheel, thereby making the overall process robust and reliable.
Grinding Wheels
