Dressing a diamond grinding wheel

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Dressing a diamond grinding wheel

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Please tell me the proper cost effective way to dress a diamond grinding wheel. I have one that is a square wheel about 1/4" thick. The edge has become rounded a bit and mot parallel with the axis so that it doesn't work properly on end mills.
Any suggestions?
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I am unable to provide any guidance in dressing diamond wheels.

I am curious, however, if you are using a diamond wheel for sharpening end mills that are not carbide. If you're using a diamond wheel for HSS, you're making a big mistake. If you're not using aluminum oxide for that operation, you should be using a CBN wheel.

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Re: Dressing a diamond grinding wheel

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Carbide it is, Harold. I use Norton SG wheels for most other applications. Requires less dressing and does not load up nearly as fast as a ruby wheel. Bloody expensive though, but makes up for it in less dressing downtime.
Thanks for your input, though.
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Quite correct. Steel of any sort 'eats' the carbon lattice that is Diamond. Yet Diamond is what is used to shape most all of the other grinding wheels, regardless of makeup, for shaping steels in grinding operations.
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I think this should be in (General Discussion),

instead of (Resource Library) You Think :?:

It's not a Book or an article Posting.

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Depends. If someone can provide proper guidance for dressing a diamond wheel, this is a good place for the information, as this forum is intended to be a resource for such matters. If nothing comes from the question, with no real resolution, yeah, maybe in the general discussion forum. Not a real issue, as those who are serious about learning tend to read all posts in all venues.

Fortunately, wisdom was used when titling the subject matter ----so a search on that particular subject would yield results, regardless of where it's posted on the board.

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Thanks Harold,

I guess I missunderstood how this was suppose to be used.

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