 | Key improvements announced to finishing discs
| Walter Surface Technologies (WST) announced key
enhancements to its cutting edge line of flap discs branded as Enduro-Flex and
Enduro-Flex Turbo for metal finishing applications, earning high marks in
finishing performance, removal rate and cost efficiency.
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 | Flexible discs provide blending control
| A new line of Type 27 cotton fiber flexible
abrasive wheels that replaces their Cut-N-Finish flexible discs for blending and
finishing flat and contoured stainless steel, carbon steel, and aluminum surfaces
in one-step is being introduced by Rex-Cut Abrasives.
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 | Brush Research releases NamPower video
| Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM), makers of the
Flex-Hone tool, is showing manufacturers how to automate deburring and surface
finishing with professional-grade NamPower abrasive disc brushes in a just-released
YouTube video.
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 | Osborn offers standard, pro and premium finishing lines
| Osborn's Standard,
Professional and Premium lines of brushes provide a finishing solution for
virtually every application and to fit any budget.
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 | Meister Abrasives introduces stationary dressing tools
| Meister has introduced a new series of hDD and cDD stationary dressing tools that provide comparable benefits for
aluminum oxide and other conventional wheels on grinding machines that are not
equipped with a rotary dresser.
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|  | Get Your Feet Wet
| Author: Yesenia Salcedo, Senior Editor
Published: September 2012
Abrasive waterjet cutting machines are flowing into small shops as complementary equipment. | View Article
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 | Choosing Coated-abrasive Flap Discs
| Author: Alan Richter, Editor
Published: April 2012
When choosing among coated-abrasive flap discs to remove metal and finish parts, grit size is just the beginning. | View Article
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 | Making A Super Switch
| Author: Matt Huff, Stahli USA, and Ed Galen, Cinetic Landis-CITGO/Gardner Abrasives Operations
Published: January 2012
A guide to converting from conventional to superabrasives in double-disc grinding. | View Article
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 | Long, Hard Life
| Author: Alan Richter, Editor
Published: December 2011
One of the Look Ahead features in this month's Cutting Tool Engineering magazine covers a new CBN superabrasive for grinding wheels that extends wheel life and lowers grinding forces. | View Article
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 | New Balance
| Author: Trevor M.J. Llewellyn, Saint-Gobain Abrasives
Published: December 2010
Manufacturers continue to make process improvements in everything from surface finish to grinding wheel life, but one of the simplest improvements is leveling an out-of-tolerance machine. | View Article
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|  | Nitty Gritty On Chatter
| | A wheel supplier urged a shop to use a 150 mesh grit wheel to put a 0.005" radius into a part, but when the shop went from its 80 mesh grit to the smaller grit the result was horrific chatter. In fact, the shop always gets chatter from small grit wheels, so the shop wrote to Dr. Jeffrey Badger for the lowdown. | | View Video |
 | Grit Size
| | Dr. Jeffrey Badger discusses the importance of grit size in the 32nd episode of the Grinding Doc video series. | | View Video |
 | Superabrasive Technology
| | Presented as an online supplement to Cutting Tool Engineering's June 2012 report on "Replacement Parts," CTEplus offers a closer look at some of the superabrasive tools and technology offered by Abrasive Technology Inc., Lewis Center, Ohio. | | View Video |
 | Grinding Friability
| | A wheel manufacturer recommended that a machine shop switch from brown alumina to white alumina because the latter is more friable. In this episode, the Grinding Doc analyzes the wisdom of this move. | | View Video |
 | Fast Track Seminars
| | Cutting Tool Engineering and our sister publication MICROmanufacturing hosted a series of Fast Track Seminars at our booth during IMTS 2010 in Chicago. Presented here are a number of the presentations filmed for online distribution.
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