ABSTRACT
Understanding the procedures and mechanisms of dressing grinding wheels is critical to obtaining optimum performance in grinding. The available dressing methods are numerous and confusing – even the basic terminology varies from one manual or paper to another. For the purposes of this discussion, the following terms will be used:
• Truing: Creating a round wheel concentric to the axis of wheel rotation, and generating, if necessary, a particular profile on the wheel face. It is also to clean out any metal embedded or “loaded” in the wheel face. A further function is to obtain a new set of sharp cutting edges on the grains at the cutting surfaces.
