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Cylindrical grinding services

Cylindrical grinding services at Midwest Metal Fabrication.

Cylindrical grinding is an abrasive machining process in which material is removed from the external surface of a metallic or nonmetallic cylindrical workpiece by rotating the grinding wheel and workpiece in opposite directions while they are in contact with one another. The workpiece is mounted between centers and is rotated by means of a workpiece holder (grinding dog or center driver.)

To view details about Midwest Metal Fabrication’s cylindrical grinding services, select one of the links below:

• Cylindrical grinding overview
• Cylindrical grinding process characteristics
• Materials
• Workpiece geometry/shapes
• Setup and equipment
• Tool style
• Tool materials
• Part sizes
• Tolerances
• Complementary services

Cylindrical grinding overview

Midwest Metal Fabrication offers centerless grinding services to customers requiring their fabricated parts or components receive grinding to remove small bits and pieces adhering to the surface of a cylindrical metallic or nonmetallic workpiece.

Cylindrical grinding process characteristics

• Produces straight, tapered, and formed workpieces
• Is used only for cylindrical workpieces
• Produces highly accurate surfaces and smooth finishes
• Is primarily a final machining process

Materials

Midwest Metal Fabrication’s operators commonly cylindrically grind steel and aluminum.

We can also centerless grind T1 and T2 aluminum, various aluminum alloys, copper, cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, high strength, low alloy, steel, and various steel alloys.

Workpiece geometry/shapes

Workpiece shapes can be cylindrical, tapered cylinders, and stepped cylinders. Cylindrical grinding normally reduces the surface roughness from 8-32 microinches.

Setup and equipment

Midwest Metal Fabrication cylindrical grinding equipment consists of a cylindrical grinding machine that holds a grinding wheel, two centers between which the workpiece is suspended, and a grinding dog, chuck, or other driving mechanism. The wheel and the workpiece move relative to one another allowing the workpiece to be ground along its entire length.

Tool Style

We use many of the grinding wheel face contours originally standardized by the Grinding Wheel Manufacturers Association. We can create specialized shapes if needed.

Tool materials

We use the common abrasive materials for cylindrical grinding wheels. These include:

• Aluminum oxide - good for steel and steel alloys with high volume applications
• Silicon carbide - good for cast iron, nonferrous and nonmetallic materials
• Diamond - either natural or man-made used for carbide grinding and nonmetallic materials
• Cubic boron nitride - the best for high speed steel and which provides a long life bit very high costs.

Part sizes

Midwest Metal Fabrication uses cylindrical grinding on fabricated parts or components as small as 1” W x 4” L x 1/4” H up to parts that are 12” W x 48” L x 6” H.

Tolerances

Our Midwest Metal Fabrication personnel can achieve tolerances of +/- 0.005” for diameter and +/- 0.001” for roundnessduring cylindrical grinding processes

Complementary services

We offer drilling, turning, milling, tapping, and grooving among other complementary machining services for our custom fabricated metal parts or components.

Call us today at 1-219-931-3131, email us at sales@midwestmetalfabrication.com, or send a fax using 1-219-844-8512 to get a quick quote to help solve your heavy gauge steel fabricating problems.

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