Electro-Plated Grinding Tools
Electro-plated tools are a single layer of diamond or CBN, mixed in a nickel bath deposited onto a substrate for maximum diamond or CBN exposure. These tools can be electro-plated with grit sizes ranging from 20 mesh for aggressive, rough grinding to 1200+ mesh designed to hold shapes and tight tolerances.
Brazed Bond Grinding Tools
A single layer of diamond or CBN is deposited onto a substrate with a layer of high temperature brazing alloy. Brazed tools offer a tough bond holding the diamond to the substrate. Like electro-plated the brazed bond allows for maximum diamond or CBN exposure. Brazed bonded tools can be brazed with 20 to 120 mesh and is used in roughing applications.
Electro-plated and Brazed tools have their advantages over metal and resin bonded tools:
- Lower initial cost
- Freer grinding, resulting in faster material removal
- Less power required
- The ability to hold form
- Eliminating time for dressing
- Safer at higher RPM operations
- The ability to strip and re-plate the substrate
In some application these tools are interchangeable. Our design engineers can help evaluate and determine which product is best for your application.
Electro-plated or Brazed tooling is used to grind a broad range of materials:
- Pre-fired & post fired ceramics
- Optics materials
- Quartz
- Glass
- Graphite
- Carbide
- Silicon
- Heat treated alloys
- Composites