How to Manually Dress the Grinding Wheel

This procedure explains how to dress the Grinding Wheel. Dressing the Grinding Wheel is required periodically to keep the Grinding Wheel surface flat, clean and at the proper roughness to balance Grinding Speed with Micro Finish. The Grinding Wheel should be manually dressed whenever a new Grinding Wheel is installed, damage is noticed on the Grinding Wheel, a Part Angle adjustment has been made to the B Axis to remove taper, Micro Finish is too rough or Chatter is observed.

PROCEDURE:

1. Close the Grinder Doors.
   
2. Go to the Operator Control Panel and push the Program pushbutton to bring up the Program Check Screen.
   
3. Next, use the keyboard and type in O 200 to call up the manual dress program.
   
4. Push the button located below the "0 SRH" displayed on the bottom of the screen.
   
5. Next, turn the Mode Select Knob to the AUTO MODE position.
   
6. Push the WHEEL ON/OFF pushbutton to start the Grinding Wheel. Once the light inside the WHEEL ON/OFF pushbutton stops blinking, the Grinding Wheel is ready to be dressed.
   
7. Go to the SBS Balancing System controller and push the SHOW ALL key.
   
8. Then, push the AEMS key.
   
9. Push DRESS, located on the SBS Balancing System.
   
10. Go back to the Operator Control Panel and push the Cycle Start pushbutton to start the dressing program.
11. Allow the dressing program to run for several complete passes and until the SBS Balancing System displays a straight line across the entire window.
    
12. When the Diamond Dresser Blade is not touching the Grinding Wheel, push the yellow RESET pushbutton to stop the dressing program and reset the Grinder.