Understanding Grinding

[Christian Poulsen]

If I was there I'd be bidding a few of those next reqd. bids!

FYI glenb that Sunnen hone is pretty much a staple in most Toolroom/Machine shops.
(Once in around the middle of my 35 yrs. I was "disenchanted" with some of my Mgt. group and I almost went after a regional Sunnen rep. job that I had an "in" to possibly get)
But I "rode" it out ("Mgt can come and go but the trade is for life")

 

[spike7638]

It's 8 years later, and I came to ask the same question, and these answers are terrific. The main "aha" moment was in realizing that the grinding wheel gets moved in the axial direction a tiny bit each time which in retrospect seems like the only reasonable way to do things, but it's not at all what I was imagining!