David Long
Articles by David Long
The Myth of Low-Price Grinding Wheels
To improve your overall cost position, David Long of Saint-Gobain Abrasives examines how premium grinding wheels, cut-off wheels, flap and fiber discs are competitive opportunities for lowering your tooling cost, improving your quality and eliminating the time and cost involved in a key labor area of the operation.
Play It Safe at the Wheel
David Long of Norton Abrasives explains the various methods used for the safe operation of Type 27 depressed center grinding wheels.
How to Select the Right Flap Disc
With all the benefits afforded by flap discs, it is important to know how to select the right one by understanding all the variables and how they apply to your metal fabricating application. Here are the five variables that will help you pick the correct one.
How to Pick the ‘Right’ Angle Abrasive
New products have expanded the right angle grinder’s use, but they have also added some complexity to the selection process to match the right product to the right material and application while meeting the criteria most important to the end user. Dave Long of Norton Abrasives shares some helpful selection tools to simplify the process.
NON-WOVEN ABRASIVES EXPAND RIGHT ANGLE GRINDING POSSIBILITIES
Right angle grinders have traditionally used grinding wheels, fiber discs, wire brushes, and flap discs for stripping, deburring, blending, prepping and finishing. But David Long of Saint-Gobain Abrasives explains why non-woven abrasives are now replacing traditional coated abrasives as a faster and more cost effective method.
