Diamond Wheel Dressing Stick?

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JR49

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Does anyone use one of these http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PMAKA=391-5762 ? Enco sent me one by mistake, and told me to keep it (its only 4 bucks). I'm not sure what to do with it. The only diamond wheel I have is the HF replacement wheel for their circular saw sharpener that I use to shape the few cheap brazed carbide bits I have for hard material, and I'm afraid this cleaning stick will tear off what little diamond dust/grains there are on this very thin wheel. TIA, JR49
 
I guess one could read that description two ways: either an abrasive stick used for dressing diamond wheels, or a stick containing diamond used for dressing other wheels.

To me it looks like one of those hard dressing sticks you get for free with the purchase of a bench grinder -- never had much use for them nor could I ever get them to dress anything!

-frank
 
that's a standard dressing stick for bench grinders. I have several laying around. They do wear down.
 
I have used those dressing sticks. They are used on diamond wheels. A diamond wheel gets loaded up, and you use the stick to clean it off and remove some of the bonding to expose more diamonds. If you don't have anything with diamond wheels it is useless. I have used them on a diamond surface grinder wheel as well as a balder tool grinder. Also back in my younger days when I I made glass Eyeglass.
 
I have one of those sticks that I use to clean up wheels after grinding aluminum. It cleans the surface pretty well and quickly. I don't work with aluminum much any more so haven't used them in a while.
 
kd4gij has it correct!

This dressing stick is white in color and very soft. It's not hard and not for dressing regular aluminum oxide grinding wheels. In fact, you can shape it on A/O wheel. It's only used for dressing or cleaning the pores of a diamond wheel only and nothing else. Their not even really good for sharpening your knife on neither! Ken
 
4gsr said:
kd4gij has it correct!

This dressing stick is white in color and very soft. It's not hard and not for dressing regular aluminum oxide grinding wheels. In fact, you can shape it on A/O wheel. It's only used for dressing or cleaning the pores of a diamond wheel only and nothing else. Their not even really good for sharpening your knife on neither! Ken
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correct--- just for cleaning the diamond grinding wheel surfaces--does a real good job and the diamond wheel grinds carbide very good again--they also clean the small diamond stones used in Dremmel type tools------I always save white grinding wheels that get too small or chipped and use them just like the dressing sticks ---they work the same and are probably the same soft material---these are the soft white grinding wheels that I use for sharpening HHS tools--I use a section of my diamond blades to dress the white wheel faces flat again and while doing this it makes the diamond dresser clean again----they are good for each other---Dave
 
That stick the OP posted about is pro'lly aluminum oxide, though could be silicon oxide as well, for diamond or CBN wheels.
 
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