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The Grinding Doc
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, The Grinding Doc, helps companies improve precision grinding operations.
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Dr. Jeffrey Badger, The Grinding Doc, is an expert in precision grinding who works independently to help companies improve their grinding operations.
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, The Grinding Doc, helps companies improve precision grinding operations.
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Source: CTE
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Shop asks the Grinding Doc to address whether mounting a nozzle at the wheel/workpiece exit point can improve coolant effectiveness in grinding…
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Jeff Badger, Ph.D., a grinding expert and the author of CTE's Grinding Doc column, provides a practical tour of the Truing Parameters…
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Jeff Badger, Ph.D., a.k.a. The Grinding Doc, describes his three-day High Intensity Grinding Course, which he developed to provide grinders an in-depth…
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A collection of episodes from CTE's Grinding Doc video series that are devoted to the subject of dressing.
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At The Grinding Doc, we put together this short video with some of our more popular electron-microscope photos. Take a look. It…
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Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., discusses the grinding principles at work that cause chatter in the 106th episode of The Grinding Doc video series.
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After a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Grinding Doc video series on Cutting Tool Engineering's website resumes with a…
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Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., aka The Grinding Doc, offers a light-hearted quick overview of "The Book of Grinding," which he published for shop…
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Dr. Jeffrey Badger provides a simple, if not pretty, solution to a nasty cylindrical grinding problem — when the side of a…
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For the 102nd Grinding Doc episode, Dr. Jeffrey Badger covers the impact that thermal softening, residual tensile stresses and rehardening burn have…
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Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., takes a detailed look at the impact different grinding approaches have on cup wheel wear in the 101st episode…
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In the 100th episode of CTE's Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger discusses his least favorite subject—chatter.
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The Grinding Doc helps a shop understand the source of the spiral marks showing up on a part, and offers a potential…
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The Grinding Doc urges shops to carefully determine where to start their rapid in-feed if they want to reduce cycle time for…
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The Grinding Doc cautions shops about improving coolant in all grinding operations. Depending on the type of grinding and the job requirements,…
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Cutting Tool Engineering's Ask The Grinding Doc columnist, Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., shares a common gripe among shops faced with the formation of…
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In the second of this two-episode Grinding Doc report, Dr. Jeffrey Badger runs a few numbers to determine a suitable overlap ratio.
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In part one of this report, the Grinding Doc acknowledges how maddening dressing can be when diamonds wear away and develop larger…
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Cutting Tool Engineering's Ask the Grinding Doc columnist, Dr. Jeffrey Badger, addresses deflection problems where coolant meets the grind zone.
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The Grinding Doc dispels the myth that switching from up grinding to down grinding eliminates burn and cuts wheel wear in half.
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Does your measurement device for cylindrically ground workpieces output cryptic displays of UPRs and FFTs? What exactly are "undulations per rev" and…
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The Grinding Doc favors the Q-prime calculation over feed rates when assessing the productivity of a cylindrical grinding operation.
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The Grinding Doc examines the forces at work when cylindrical grinding produces round workpieces one minute, then something resembling a fried egg…
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A shop asks CTE's Grinding Doc about taper that shows up when cylindrical-OD grinding. The shop seeks advice to mitigate the problem.
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Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., CTE's Ask The Grinding Doc columnist, explains the cause of what he calls "fish-scale chatter" in the 88th episode…
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A shop writes to the Grinding Doc: There's lots of discussion at my company about the best diamond fluting wheel for grinding…
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How do you know your coolant velocity? The Grinding Doc says the best — and perhaps most accurate — way to determine…
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For the 86th episode in the Grinding Doc video series from Cutting Tool Engineering, Dr. Jeffrey Badger encourages shops to true a…
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Watch Cutting Tool Engineering's special three-part video report that follows along as Rush Machinery in Rushville, N.Y., and Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., a.k.a.…
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For the 84th episode of the CTE Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger offers some preliminary results and observations from his…
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For the 83rd episode of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger visits with Rush Machinery in Rushville, N.Y.,…
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For the 82nd episode of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger explains why using the Barkhausen Noise Signal…
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Dr. Jeffrey Badger examines why many shops experience pain when cylindrical grinding a face, or shoulder, in the 81st episode of the…
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Using a Norton SG grit wheel, a shop turned to the Grinding Doc to find out why they suddenly lose form on…
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A shop sometimes experiences burn when using a CBN wheel to cylindrically plunge-grind a part. Slowing down doesn't help. Dr. Jeffrey Badger,…
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Dr. Jeffrey Badger, who writes the Ask the Grinding Doc column for Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, offers a closer look at TG…
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As an independent grinding consultant to companies around the globe, Dr. Jeffrey Badger occasionally is asked if he sees differences in grinding…
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Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., addresses the difference between grinding ceramic material versus steel in the 76th episode of the Grinding Doc video series.
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A shop contacted the Grinding Doc to find out why it was getting a "horrible" surface finish when it first puts on…
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A shop asks Dr. Jeffrey Badger about applying Norton SG grits in the 74th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc…
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In the 73rd episode of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc Video Series, consultant Dr. Jeffrey Badger discusses options for eliminating burr during…
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Our supplier in Asia is grinding hardened-steel parts and sending them to us for final processing. Some of them are cracking, so…
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Dr. Jeffrey Badger, Cutting Tool Engineering's "Ask the Grinding Doc" columnist, offers some simple advice for detecting whether your wheel has loading.
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Dr. Jeffrey Badger explains the significance of "size effect" in the latest episode of the Grinding Doc Video Series.
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Ask the Grinding Doc Columnist Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., responds to a question about the difference between "constant rpm" and "constant metal-removal rate"…
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Is grinding a chip-formation process similar to turning? That's the question fielded by Dr. Jeffrey Badger, grinding consultant and author of the…
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Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., , the host of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc Video Series, explains the difference between friable grits and tough…
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Dear Doc: I sell grinding wheels and frequently find myself pulling my hair out when recommending wheels to customers. One customer achieved…
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Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc Video Series, helps a shop that appears to be grinding good…
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A shop seeks the Grinding Doc's advice regarding plans to improve cutting tool quality by improving surface finish in the 67th episode…
