Material Removal / Roughing (Coarse Grits)

Typically coarse grit abrasive products designed for heavy cutting or stock removal applications with rougher commercial finish compared to finer grit wheels. Vitrified or bonded abrasive wheels with 46 grit and coarser grain and 100S grit superabrasive wheels would fall into this category.

 

Intermediate Cut & Finish (Medium Grits)

Medium or medium fine grit products are typically used for moderate stock removal combined with a better finish compared to coarser grits. Vitrified or bonded abrasive wheels with in the 54 to 80 grit grain size and 120 grit superabrasive wheels would fall into this category.

   

Finishing / Light Cutting (Fine Grits)

Fine grit abrasive products designed or suitable finishing with light cutting or stock removal. Vitrified or bonded abrasive wheels with in the 100 to 120 grit grain size and 150 grit superabrasive wheels would fall into this category.

   

Corner Holding / Finish Generation (Very Fine Grits)

Very fine to ultrafine abrasive products are used to improve finish and provide good corner holding characteristics. Ultrafine grit may be used for honing type applications. Vitrified or bonded abrasive wheels with 150 grit or finer grain and 180 grit superabrasive wheels would fall into this category.

 

Cleaning / Surface Prep

Abrasive products such as non-woven wheels suitable for cleaning, stripping coatings,   descaling, deburring or other surface preparation applications.

 

Bench / Pedestal

Abrasive product designed for use on bench or back stand grinders or sanders with offhand (handheld) presentation of the parts to the abrasive.

   

Cylindrical / Centerless

Grinding between centers of shafts, threaded shafts, large rolls, cams or similar components.

 

Dry Grinding

Abrasive products designed or suitable for dry grinding applications.

 

Form / Gear Grinding

Form, profile, gear, and other processes where the surface of the grinding wheel is shaped by dressing to create a specific profile. By dressing an inverse profile of the desired component surface on to a grinding wheel, complex sequencing of multiple steps can be avoided. Form grinding is also possible with coated abrasives and nonwoven products using specialized accessories.

 

Internal / Bores

Internal grinding utilizes smaller diameter wheels or abrasive products for grinding or finishing the surface on the inner diameter of a part.

 

Portable Grinder / Handheld

Abrasive product designed for use on portable or handheld grinders or sanders such as weld grinding on a large fabrication.

 

Surface / Creepfeed Grinding

Abrasive products designed or suitable for Blanchard, surface or creepfeed grinding   applications.

 

Toolroom / Sharpening

Abrasive products designed or suitable for toolroom or precision grinding applications

 

Wet Grinding

Waterproof abrasive products designed or suitable for grinding using a water or water-oil coolant mixture.

 

Specialty / Other

Abrasive products designed or suitable for other specialty, proprietary or patented   applications.