I work for a small machine shop that specializes in precision grinding. We have several rotary grinders (Blanchards), double disc grinders, and one large surface grinder.
Our owner has recently expressed interest in vacuum chucks for the non-ferrous materials we grind, and tasked me with doing some research. For full disclosure, I am not a machinist, I am the maintenance department, lol.
The surface grinder is pretty straight forward, but the rotary grinder seems a bit more complicated. I was looking at Magnalock's catalog and they have what looks like a pretty nice vacuum chuck that can be installed on a rotary grinder, but I want to understand how.
I was wondering if anyone here had experience with a vacuum chuck on a rotary grinder, and how it was installed. Is it something that requires removing the magnetic chuck and retrofitting the vacuum chuck onto the table? Or could it just be mounted directly onto the magnetic chuck?
If it could be mounted directly to the magnetic chuck, that would be ideal. But I start getting confused when it comes to the rotary union on the bottom side of the vacuum chuck. The only thing I can think is that you would need to drill a hole in the center of the magnetic chuck and run the hose out the conduit with the wires for the brushes. But that doesn't seem right to me.
I am contacting Magnalock with similar questions, but thought I would post this here since you guys have been a big help to me in the past.
Our owner has recently expressed interest in vacuum chucks for the non-ferrous materials we grind, and tasked me with doing some research. For full disclosure, I am not a machinist, I am the maintenance department, lol.
The surface grinder is pretty straight forward, but the rotary grinder seems a bit more complicated. I was looking at Magnalock's catalog and they have what looks like a pretty nice vacuum chuck that can be installed on a rotary grinder, but I want to understand how.
I was wondering if anyone here had experience with a vacuum chuck on a rotary grinder, and how it was installed. Is it something that requires removing the magnetic chuck and retrofitting the vacuum chuck onto the table? Or could it just be mounted directly onto the magnetic chuck?
If it could be mounted directly to the magnetic chuck, that would be ideal. But I start getting confused when it comes to the rotary union on the bottom side of the vacuum chuck. The only thing I can think is that you would need to drill a hole in the center of the magnetic chuck and run the hose out the conduit with the wires for the brushes. But that doesn't seem right to me.
I am contacting Magnalock with similar questions, but thought I would post this here since you guys have been a big help to me in the past.