Frequently asked questions
Holding disc impacting your workpiece All CBN grinding wheels have a metal disc upon which abrasive material is affixed. As personnel continue to use this grinding wheel it will experience wear and tear.
Q: Which Grit CBN wheels should I buy?
A: That depends on your style. If you reshape tools often or make some of your own tools on occasion, get the 80-grit wheel as your low grit wheel. If you don't do that type of grinding much, then get the 180 grit.
About grinding Carbide with CBN: CBN is a superabrasive and will grind cemented carbide. To sum up, CBN and Carbide products vary considerably in quality/hardness With a good wheel and average carbide (which is usually the case) intermittent use it can be done, but physics with eventually catch up wear out the wheel.
between 5500- 7500 SFPM For CBN wheels, we recommend a SFPM speed of between 5500- 7500 SFPM. You can calculate this using the formula below or download the SFPM calculator. Truing and dressing your grinding wheel are two essential actions to perform before executing your first cut. They are also necessary for general wheel maintenance.
CBN does not break down while sharpening steel, and is a superior material for high speed grinding of woodworking tools. CBN wheels have been used in industrial grinding applications for many years.
Diamond and CBN grinding wheels are the most aggressive grinding wheels on the market right now. Both provide dominant performance due to their high stock removal rates and ability to grind the most difficult materials.
Grit refers to the size of particles embedded in an abrasive material. The higher the grit, the finer the abrasive. There are different standards for grit used internationally and by manufacturers. For example, just because a polish or compound is labeled as 14,000 grit doesn't mean that all its content is that size. It depends on the methods used to make and grade the compound. Some manufacturers use an average particle size and some use a "nothing larger than" standard, and so on. Read the label or ask the retailer if you're not sure of the standard used.
Mesh refers to the number of evenly spaced holes in a screen per square inch. This refers to a traditional technique used to winnow material through a series of screens with increasingly finer mesh sizes. Particles stopped by a screen of a particular mesh were measured by that mesh number.
A micron is a unit (one 10-6 of a meter) used to measure the size of particles in an abrasive material.
