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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.
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.
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