Diamond Dressing - Useful Industrial Process

Diamonds are used diversely in industries for several processes besides employing them for making jewelry. It is used as diamond dressing tool for sharpening industrial apparatus and to provide a sharp cut to any element. Dressing generally refers to a process in which grinding wheels are used for crushing diamonds particles into pieces or for giving them any specific shape. Using grinding wheels for cutting and sharpening works makes this job easy enough to perform instantly without manual labor. However, to provide a specific cut to any element, it is important to employ experts for this job. These dressers generally come in four different types, out of which two are most famous. Following are the types of the dressers used for cutting purposes.

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Single point and multiple point dressers are the two diversely used dresser tool in industries. Besides providing any specific cut to an element, it is also used for finishing and smoothening any surface on which it is applied. Such dressers commonly consist of an abrasive, a single point diamond dresser, and some of the other tools. Besides the four dressers mentioned above, various other cutting tools also come under this category. Dressing sticks, diamond crush rolls, star dressers are some of the important ones. Moreover, dressing sticks are made from hard material most commonly silicon carbide. Star dresser on the other hand, are long handled tool that has single diamond mounted at the top of the tool. Besides this, crush rolls are made by steel or tungsten. It is a high-speed grinding wheel used for dressing purposes. No doubt, all the devices mentioned above are of great industrial use; however, some disadvantages are also there. A crush roll cannot be adjusted as per requirement. It is needed to be replaced every time the cutting profile is changed.

Besides this, diamond grit is also used for precise application when any tool is needed to be dressed specifically. Grits play an important role to determine the number of carats a diamond has. The fine the carat is, the more the number of carats are there in the diamond. Moreover, grits can improve the sharpening abilities of different tools. Hence, it is generally preferred over other devices. Moreover, any cut from such a devices is free from visible impurities or errors. Such devices have good strength and thermal capacity.

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