Organic bonded abrasive bodies such as snagging wheels and wheel segments for conditioning billets, slabs, and castings have abrading portions with 0 to 8% pores by volume, a low abrasive content of from 24 to 45% by volume of 4 to 36 grit size abrasive, substantially constant volume of a thermosetting resin of from 18 to 24% by volume and a high content of filler material constituting from 29% to 56% by volume of the body and wherein at least 80% by volume of the filler material is inorganic material.
A flat type resinoid grinding wheel, which comprises abrasive grains and phenol resin bond, contains inorganic substance particles in the abrasive grains. The particles are almost the same as the abrasive grains in size but are lower than the abrasive grains in hardness value. Furthermore, the porosity of the grinding wheel is limited to 15% or less.
The invention relates to a method for making quick ageing abrasive slurries particularly designed for the construction of grinding wheels, comprising the steps of preparing a slurry starting from magnesium carbonate, magnesium sulphate, abrasive materials and inert fillers, adding a phenolic resin, kneading to obtain a homogeneous mass, filling the slurry in forming molds and carrying out an ageing step, by cyclically heating the slurry with set increasing temperatures, and a subsequent cooling to the environment temperature.
An abrasive article with abrasive grain such as corundum, a binder which is a hardenable organic or inorganic system, for example plastic, such as phenol resin, and grinding-active fillers, as well as an abrasive with abrasive grain such as corundum, a binder which is a hardenable organic or inorganic system, for example plastic, such as phenol resin, and grinding-active fillers. The abrasive compound of the abrasive consisting of abrasive grain, binder and the fillers is placed on a flexible substrate, which is formed by a nonwoven fabric. New low-priced fillers with low toxicity are incorporated in the abrasive article and, in fact, metal complex salts with the following structure: where: M.sub.1 =pure metal or mixture of alkali metal, alkaline earth metal and/or Al M.sub.2 =pure metal or mixture of Zn, Mn, Fe except for Fe as chloride Hal=pure halogen or mixture of F, Cl, Br, I Chal=chalcogenides, O and/or S Ph=phosphate or more highly condensed phosphates P.sub.r O.sub.s (r=1 to 10, preferably 1 to 2, s=4 to 20, preferably 4 to 7) u, v, w, x or z=0 to 95%, and the total of u and v=1 to 95%, preferably 20 to 80%, and the total of w, x and z=1 to 95%, preferably 20 to 80%, and that the total of u, v, w, x and z is 100%. These fillers are melted or sintered with each other.
A rotary tool for cutting, drilling, grinding, or polishing metallic or non-metallic materials is made of a compact material, which consists of an inorganic fiber reinforced plastic containing 50 to 81 volume % of inorganic long fibers selected from the following group: alumina fibers, boron fibers, silicon carbide fibers, and silicon nitride fibers, the remaining portion of the compact material consisting of a thermosetting resin matrix.
An abrasive slurry particularly suited for use in drilling or machining boron carbide consists essentially of a suspension of boron carbide and/or silicon carbide grit in a carrier solution consisting essentially of a dilute solution of alkylaryl polyether alcohol in octyl alcohol. The alkylaryl polyether alcohol functions as a wetting agent which improves the capacity of the octyl alcohol for carrying the grit in suspension, yet without substantially increasing the viscosity of the carrier solution.
