A new method for dressing fine grain diamond wheels the soft-elastic elastic dressing method

This paper describes a completely new dressing technique the soft-elastic dressing method which can effectively dress fine grain diamond wheels. A rotating and vibrating abrasive belt is used in the soft-elastic dressing method. The principle of the new dressing technique and the soft-elastic dressing equipment are presented. Factors that influence the truing efficiency truing precision and sharpening quality are carefully investigated. The grinding surface roughness after soft-elastic dressing is performed is investigated experimentally. The dressing and grinding experiments both prove that the soft-elastic dressing method has high truing efficiency high truing precision and good sharpening quality.