Thread: Grinder Wheel Dressing - What to Use?

Hi Dale,

I use a silicon carbide stick for the normal grinding wheel.... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wheel-Dre...item5d354968c2

But I haven't dressed a bench grinding wheel for a few years now... since changing to CBN wheels that is ...

On the others I use a single point diamond.

Ray

Ray the silicone carbide, is that just a coarse stone?

The diamond dresser that irony shows looks pretty fool proof.

For the bench grinder, I have always used a black carbide stick similar to the one Ray just linked to. They last for long.... my stick is 30 years old now. It is a VERY messy job though. You want to do this OUTSIDE. Dressing a grinder wheel produces a huge cloud of extremely abrasive dust - a very effective method to ruin any precision instrument or machine tool. Do not try this inside your workshop.

If you have a means to accurately guide a single point diamond tool across the disk to be dressed, that is of course the best method (like used to dress a tool post grinder, or to dress a cutter grinder).

Originally Posted by RayG

Hi Dale,

I use a silicon carbide stick for the normal grinding wheel.... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wheel-Dre...item5d354968c2

But I haven't dressed a bench grinding wheel for a few years now... since changing to CBN wheels that is ...

On the others I use a single point diamond.

Ray

Originally Posted by DSEL74

Ray the silicone carbide, is that just a coarse stone?

Very coarse.... not really a stone.. it's too coarse.

Ray

Originally Posted by irony

I only ever dress the white wheels and with a diamond dresser. No huge clouds of dust though, I suppose the amount of dust generated is related to how much stone you remove, I try to remove as little as possible. I tossed up between the diamond and carbide, glad I didn't get the carbide one now - by the sound of it. The multi wheeled things make a hell of a mess too.

There is a difference in trueing and dressing.

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some good comparisons here:
http://www.noritake.co.jp/eng/produc.../dressing.html

Originally Posted by irony

I use the cheap ($5.50) diamond dresser:

They seem to last forever, easy to use and give a nice straight wheel.

Where can you get these from?

Hi All,
I might be a little tighter than most of you.
I came across a Concrete Cutter doing a Footpath, short story is, I obtained 2 of his big Cutting Wheels that he said had had their day,
So draw a line across the Wheel, twice, hole to hole, cut with Angle Grinder, & you get a long Triangle Piece, then you need to clean it up on wire wheel & so on.
The ones I obtained had at least 3/16ths. of Diamond Encrusted Steel left.
So that is what I use on both Grey & White Wheels.
My2senseworth.

I'm another that use concrete saw blade sections. I also have the tip of a rock drill bit used for test or blasting holes. Both are the right price if you have access. Free!

Pete

Originally Posted by issatree

Hi All,
I might be a little tighter than most of you.
I came across a Concrete Cutter doing a Footpath, short story is, I obtained 2 of his big Cutting Wheels that he said had had their day,
So draw a line across the Wheel, twice, hole to hole, cut with Angle Grinder, & you get a long Triangle Piece, then you need to clean it up on wire wheel & so on.
The ones I obtained had at least 3/16ths. of Diamond Encrusted Steel left.
So that is what I use on both Grey & White Wheels.
My2senseworth.

Originally Posted by QC Inspector

I'm another that use concrete saw blade sections. I also have the tip of a rock drill bit used for test or blasting holes. Both are the right price if you have access. Free!

Pete

I also use concrete cutter blades cut up for dressing my bench grinder wheels, white,grey and green.
I use a single point diamond for the tool and cutter grinder and the surface grinder....

ATB
Matt