Use a dressing brick such as Part No. R000624 to dress
DRESSING STRAIGHT GRINDING
desired radius onto periphery of grinding wheels such as
WHEELS
Resinoid or Vitrified
those required for flute grinding. See illustration No. 12.
Set the work-head as shown in illustration No. 11 and lock
CLEANING DIAMOND GRINDING WHEELS
the table of the grinder. Next feed the grinding wheel
down onto the diamond and then traverse the grinding
In general you do not dress the diamond grinding wheel as
wheel back and forth across the diamond by turning cross
such, you clean it using a cleaning stick such as the one
feed handwheel.
supplied with the diamond wheel, Part No. 370426. The
cleaning stick should be used frequently to prevent a
buildup or excessive loading of the diamond wheel.
A diamond wheel will be glazed and loaded by
grinding on mild steel. This is one of the main reasons for
avoiding at all times the grinding of steel with your
diamond wheel.
GRINDING STRAIGHT HIGH SPEED STEEL ROUTER
BITS
1.
Dress the flaring cup grinding wheel as shown In
Illustration No. 10.
2.
Lock grinder table to extreme left side.
3.
Position work-head near left hand end of grinder
table.
4.
Swing work-head to left and locate against stop
pin.
5.
Select collet to fit shank of router bit to be ground
and mount router bit and collet into work-head.
6.
Mount the flaring cup wheel onto spindle shaft with
face of cup wheel to back of the grinder.
ILLUSTRATION NO. 11
7.
Position flute to be ground straight up by rotating
DRESSING O. D. OF STRAIGHT GRINDING WHEEL
cutter and then lock with lock knob, (dia No. 23 of
exploded view drawing No. 3).
TO DRESS RADIUS ON PERIPHERY OF RESINOID OR
8.
Now position grinding wheel near work and re-lock
VITRIFIED GRINDING WHEEL
table.
9.
Sight in face of grinding wheel and face of router
bit cutter flute. If set-up looks good, unlock table
and set stop rods. Stop rods should be set so as
to limit grinding wheel travel along the flute of the
cutter. Set right hand stop rod so that router bit
clears away from grinding wheel and can be
rotated.
10.
Turn on grinder motor and bring grinding wheel
into work. Back grinding wheel off and check
surface of cutter to see that grinding wheel has
contacted the work at least half of the face width
of the cutter. See drawing illustration No. 13. If
grinding wheel is grinding only the top or bottom
edge of the router bit, loosen lock screw (dia No.
23) and rotate collet assembly to achieve lineup.
ILLUSTRATION NO. 12
DRESSING RADIUS ON GRINDING WHEEL
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