Electrolytic grinding process has remarkable effects on the grinding of hard to grind materials such as cemented carbide, superalloy, etc. However, it would be important to find out various operating conditions for giving the most remarkable effects.
Several experiments for electrolytic grinding of cemented carbide carried out for determining optimum conditions are reported in this paper.
Some of the results obtained are as follows.
(1) The rate of stock removal increased in linear proportion to current density, and current density decreased with the increase of d.c. voltage.
(2) The range of d.c. voltage controlling the mechanical grinding action was determined by microphotographs of electrolytically ground surfaces.
(3) The optimum conditions relating to d.c. voltage and working pressure were accurately expressed by the power consumption of the spindle motor.
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