Wheel Dressers

Narrow Wheel Dresser Operating Instructions

Grinding, How To, Wheel Dressers
At 25° the tool dresses the back of Grinding Wheel

This Narrow Wheel Dresser is designed to dress the sides of grinding wheels quickly to a very thin width. This method directs the pressure up into the wheel, not to the side.

The rate of stock removal and the width to be dressed are determined by the wheel structure, hardness, density, and grit size. The narrow wheel dresser will dress the sides of any width wheel to a specific size quickly and accurately.

This narrow wheel dresser has successfully dressed wheels down to .010″ with minimum wheel failure.

At 20° the front of the Grinding Wheel is dressed

To operate:

  • Set the narrow wheel dresser at 25-degrees to true up the back of the wheel.
  • Rotate the crank in counterclockwise direction and feed the wheel down.
  • Next, set the dresser at 20-degrees and rough-dress the front side down to 0.40″. Stock removal failure depends on wheel structure.
  • Dresser will easily remove 3/16-inch on one pass on most wheels.
  • To dress wheels below .040″, set dresser at 45-degrees.
For under .040″ , set dresser at 45°

We stock the replacement cluster diamond. SKU: NWD-DIA

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Narrow Wheel Dresser

Narrow Wheel Dressing – How Thin Can I Go?

Grinding, Wheel Dressers

To determine what wheel to use, under normal conditions, multiply the grain size by 3.

Example: Grain Size of A 100 Grit Wheel is .0068” x 3 = .0204”

Average Particle Size of Abrasive Grain

Grit Size

Inches

Microns

4

.2577

6848

6

.2117

5630

8

.1817

4620

10

.1366

3460

12

.1003

2550

14

.0830

2100

16

.0655

1660

20

.0528

1340

24

.0408

1035

30

.0365

930

36

.0280

710

46

.0200

508

54

.0170

430

60

.0160

406

70

.0131

328

80

.0105

266

90

.0085

216

100

.0068

173

120

.0056

142

150

.0048

122

180

.0034

86

220

.0026

66

240

.00248

63

280

.00175

44

320

.00128

32

340

.00090

23

500

.00065

16

600

.00033

8

900

.00024

6

L.A.

.00012

3

Other conditions such as wheel density will affect how thin a wheel can be made.
For example if you use a more open wheel structure a finer grit size will be required to achieve the same thickness.

Narrow Wheel Dresser