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    Surface grinding is a common finishing process that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to smooth flat surfaces of materials. The grinding wheel removes a minute amount of material to produce a flat or smooth surface. It involves moving a grinding wheel or the surface in a plane while the wheel contacts the surface. There are different types of surface grinders, including horizontal spindle grinders which use the wheel's periphery, and vertical spindle grinders which use the wheel face. Disc grinders also exist which use larger grinding discs.

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    Surface Grinding

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    Surface grinding is a common finishing process that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to smooth flat surfaces of materials. The grinding wheel removes a minute amount of material to produce a flat or smooth surface. It involves moving a grinding wheel or the surface in a plane while the wheel contacts the surface. There are different types of surface grinders, including horizontal spindle grinders which use the wheel's periphery, and vertical spindle grinders which use the wheel face. Disc grinders also exist which use larger grinding discs.

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    Surface grinding is a common finishing process that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to smooth flat surfaces of materials. The grinding wheel removes a minute amount of material to produce a flat or smooth surface. It involves moving a grinding wheel or the surface in a plane while the wheel contacts the surface. There are different types of surface grinders, including horizontal spindle grinders which use the wheel's periphery, and vertical spindle grinders which use the wheel face. Disc grinders also exist which use larger grinding discs.

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    Surface grinding is a common finishing process that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to smooth flat surfaces of materials. The grinding wheel removes a minute amount of material to produce a flat or smooth surface. It involves moving a grinding wheel or the surface in a plane while the wheel contacts the surface. There are different types of surface grinders, including horizontal spindle grinders which use the wheel's periphery, and vertical spindle grinders which use the wheel face. Disc grinders also exist which use larger grinding discs.

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    SURFACE GRINDING

    Surface Grinding is a manufacturing process which moves or grinding wheel relative a


    surface in a plane while a grinding wheel contacts the surface and removes a minute amount of
    material, such that a flat surface. Surface grinding is used to produce a smooth finish on flat
    surfaces. It is a widely used abrasive machining process in which a spinning wheel covered in
    rough particles (grinding wheel) cuts chips of metallic or non metallic substance from a work
    piece, making a face of it flat or smooth.

    Surface grinding is the most common of the grinding operations. It is a finishing process
    that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to smooth the flat surface of metallic or nonmetallic
    materials to give them a more refined look or to attain a desired surface for a functional
    purpose.

    The surface grinder is composed of an abrasive wheel. The abrasive wheels are made
    from an abrasive medium (usually aluminum oxide or silicon carbide) held together by a vitrified
    (glass) bond. The wheels are rotated at very high speeds (up to 10,000 rpm). It is important
    therefore that the wheels are not damaged, as fractured wheels can disintegrate and fling
    painful clumps of wheel in a wide area. That is why the grinders are shielded with extensive
    guarding a work holding device known as a chuck, and a reciprocating table.
    The chuck holds the material in place while it is being worked on. It can do this one of
    two way, ferromagnetic pieces are held in place by a magnetic chuck, while non-ferromagnetic
    and nonmetallic pieces are held in place by vacuum or mechanical means. A machine
    vise (made from ferromagnetic steel or cast iron) placed on the magnetic chuck can be used to
    hold non-ferromagnetic work pieces if only a magnetic chuck is available.

    The basic machine has a grinding wheel above the work area which can be fed
    downward in very small increments into a work piece which is being moved to the left and the
    right and in and out. This allows the wheel to contact all areas of the surface of the work piece.
    The grinder  is usually equipped with a magnetic plate used to hold the work
    piece. It is sometimes referred to as a magnetic chuck, although it does not look anything like a
    lathe chuck. The magnetic chuck holds magnetic materials only. However steel clamps (a
    magnetic material) can be used to laterally clamp non-magnetic materials for surface grinding. 

    TYPES OF SURFACE GRINDER

    Horizontal-spindle (peripheral) surface grinders

     The periphery (flat edge) of the wheel is in contact with the workpiece, producing the flat
    surface. Peripheral grinding is used in high-precision work on simple flat surfaces; tapers or
    angled surfaces; slots; flat surfaces next to shoulders; recessed surfaces; and profiles.
    Vertical-spindle (wheel-face) grinders 

    The face of a wheel (cup, cylinder, disc, or segmental wheel) is used on the flat surface. Wheel-
    face grinding is often used for fast material removal, but some machines can accomplish high-
    precision work. The workpiece is held on a reciprocating table, which can be varied according to
    the task, or a rotary-table machine, with continuous or indexed rotation. Indexing allows loading
    or unloading one station while grinding operations are being performed on another.

    Disc grinders and double-disc grinders 

    Disc grinding is similar to surface grinding, but with a larger contact area between disc and
    workpiece. Disc grinders are available in both vertical and horizontal spindle types. Double disc
    grinders work both sides of a workpiece simultaneously. Disc grinders are capable of achieving
    especially fine tolerances.

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