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Surface grinding services

Surface grinding services at Midwest Metal Fabrication.

Surface grinding is an abrasive machining process in which abrasive particles, bonded into a grinding wheel, remove small amounts of material from a workpiece. The grinding wheel may be shaped to form a variety of workpiece geometries.

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

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

Surface grinding overview

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

Surface grinding process characteristics

• Produces very high surface accuracy and smooth surfaces
• Removes very small chips from metallic or nonmetallic materials
• Produces a flat or formed surface
• Uses abrasive grains in the form of a bonded wheel
• Is primarily a finishing process

Materials

Midwest Metal Fabrication’s operators commonly surface grind steel, aluminum, brass, and mild steel.

We can also surface grind T1 and T2 aluminum, various aluminum alloys, copper, cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, galvannealed, high strength, low alloy, steel, and hot-dipped galvanized G-90 through G-235, various steel alloys, and pre-painted metals.

Workpiece geometry/shapes

Workpiece shapes can be square, rectangular, circular, or ovoid. Surface grinding reduces the surface roughness from 30-40 microinches to 8-10 microinches.

Setup and equipment

Midwest Metal Fabrication surface grinding equipment consists of an abrasive wheel, a reciprocating table, and a workpiece holding device. We rotate the abrasive wheel and feed in into the workpiece. We can secure the workpiece magnetically or by using adhesives.

Tool style

We use many of the tool styles originally standardized by the Grinding Wheel Manufacturers Association.

Tool materials

We use the common abrasive materials for surface 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 surface 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 +/- 0.001” during surface grinding.

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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