Grinding Wheel Dressing Methods: Truing, Sharpening and Tool Selection
Grinding wheel conditioning normally involves two related operations: truing and dressing. Truing restores the wheel’s geometry, profile and concentricity. Dressing restores the cutting condition of the wheel face by exposing abrasive grains, removing loading and creating the required chip space. For conventional aluminum oxide and silicon carbide wheels, one dressing operation often performs both functions. […]
