Norton Abrasives for the Industrial Market
Norton Abrasives for the Industrial Market
North America
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Vortex Creepfeed Wheels

Vortex Creepfeed Wheels
Vortex Creepfeed continues to win on continuous dress and non continuous dress applications. Our customer base is growing in aerospace and saw blade accounts, and has expanded into automotive and tool accounts.
We have learned a lot about the product after the first round of testing. We have expanded our availability to include type 05 and 07 wheels. 100 grit is now available to help win when trying to hold a small radius. We are working with R&D to expand to harder grades. Please continue to give us the feedback we need to provide you the product to win new business.

Tips for Use

Choose specification according to conversion chart. Use that specification and one slightly softer.
For continuous dress:

  • Test at 500 sfpm above existing wheel speed.
  • Set continuous dress rate to 75% of standard.
  • Eliminate one pass if more than one exists.
  • Operate table feed rate at existing parameters and increase until burn or loss of form. Increase wheel speed 500 sfpm to correct problem.

If intermittent dress:

  • Reduce dress amount by 25% and increase feed rate to optimization. 
  • Lower wheel speed 500 sfpm to correct for burn. 
  • In all cases, removing passes from multi-pass operations are most cost-effective.

Optimizing coolant application is also very important to further optimization. Slight increases in dresser speed ratio can also correct for burn.