The Variables Affecting Diamond Tooling Work

2021-12-09

Diamond tooling uses diamond segments to scour the concrete and grind the surface. This action can be used to remove not only concrete, but also old coatings, glues and high spots. Diamond tooling has many variables that affects the rate and ability to remove the surface of concrete and coatings which include:

Diamond speed

This is the one thing needed to make any diamond tooling actually work. It is governed by the grinding machine that the diamond tooling is fitted to. The planetary discs on a multi-disc machine can be powered so they are actively driven, or be passive. Passive machines rely on the main head they are attached to to give the speed of diamond over the surface. A machine with non-powered discs usually has a high main disc speed. RPM of the planetary discs does not necessarily mean high production if the final diamond speed over the surface is slow or there is not much weight on the diamonds.

RPM is not the critical number you need to look at. It is the number of meters per minute that the diamond segments are dragged over the surface, which is a combination of the RPM by the diameter of the disc, the cumulative speed of the tooling and main head, the weight on the diamonds.

Matrix composition

Diamond segments are powered to move over the surface and grind.Changing the materials what matrix is made from will vary the wear resistance and the range of concrete hardness that the matrix will perform over, and will change the rate of diamonds are exposed. How much the diamond is exposed governs how effectively the segment will abrade the surface.

Effect of the dust extraction

When on the hard concrete, by not sucking all the dust from under the grinding machine will allow the dust to erode the matrix and the diamond will protrude out of the matrix and scratch the concrete properly to create an faster grind. In turn sucking away all the dust produced can slow the wear of your diamonds on soft concrete.

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