|  | Dealing With Burn In Grinding
| Author: Dr. Jeffrey Badger Published: June 2013
The Grinding Doc responds to a shop that is cylindrical-plunge grinding a threadlike shape into tungsten carbide, and is getting grinding burn on the leading face, but not the trailing face. | View Article
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 | Choosing The Proper CBN Grit Size
| Author: Dr. Jeffrey Badger Published: April 2013
The Grinding Doc tackles a common mistake made by shops using CBN wheels is that they choose a grit size that’s too large and then take drastic actions to cope with it. | View Article
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 | Keeping Cool Grinding Stainless
| Author: Dr. Jeffrey Badger Published: February 2013
Dear Doc: I grind the ODs and IDs of stainless steel bearings and have a much tougher time than when grinding hardened steel. Why? | View Article
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 | Achieving Reasonable Wheel Wear
| Author: Dr. Jeffrey Badger Published: December 2012
A shop worker grinding fine threads into hardened stainless steel with a fine-mesh aluminum-oxide wheel needs to achieve reasonable wheel wear. | View Article
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 | The Real Cause Of Burn
| Author: Dr. Jeffrey Badger Published: August 2012
Ask the Grinding Doc columnist Dr. Jeffrey Badger addresses a shop's question about the real cause of grinding burn. | View Article
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|  | Don't Get Cracking
| | In the 40th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering's Web-based Grinding Doc Video Series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop that's getting cracking at the corner radius of a tungsten-carbide part. | | View Video |
 | Grinding The Wave
| | A shop experiencing on-again, off-again waviness issues during cylindrical OD grinding operations asks Dr. Jeffrey Badger why the problem comes and goes in the 39th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc Video Series. | | View Video |
 | Rust Never Grinds
| | In this 38th episode of the Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop deal with the brown, yellow and blue marks that keep appearing on an unground surface. He addresses the difference between oxidation burn, or rust, and genuine thermal damage. | | View Video |
 | What's Your Q Prime Number?
| | A shop that grinds tungsten-carbide endmills using a resin-bonded diamond wheel turned to Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the author behind our Ask the Grinding Doc column and video series, because one of the shop's wheel suppliers keeps talking about Q prime values. | | View Video |
 | 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 |
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