Tips for Reducing Mold Processing Defects

In order to improve the performance of molds, many manufacturers will process their molds appropriately. Mold processing refers to the processing of forming and blank making tools, as well as shear molds and die-cutting molds. However, in many cases, after mold processing, processing defects will also be reflected, leading to a decrease in mold performance. So how to build mold processing defects? The following seven measures can be taken by mold processing manufacturers to address mold processing defects.

1. Reasonable selection and dressing of grinding wheels

The use of white corundum grinding wheel is better, as its performance is hard and brittle, and it is prone to generating new cutting edges. Therefore, the cutting force is small, the grinding heat is small, and a medium particle size, such as 46-60 mesh, is better. In terms of grinding wheel hardness, medium soft and soft (ZR1, ZR2 and R1 R2)， Coarse grained and low hardness grinding wheels with good self excitation can reduce cutting heat. It is very important to choose the appropriate grinding wheel during precision grinding. For the high vanadium and high molybdenum conditions of mold steel, GD single crystal corundum grinding wheel is more suitable. When processing hard alloys and materials with high quenching hardness, organic bonded diamond grinding wheel is preferred. Organic bonded grinding wheel has good self grinding performance, and the roughness of the ground workpiece can reach Ra0.2 μ m. In recent years, with the application of new materials, CBN (cubic boron nitride) grinding wheel has shown very good processing effect. It is more effective than other types of grinding wheels in precision machining on CNC forming grinding machines, coordinate grinding machines, and CNC internal and external cylindrical grinding machines. In grinding processing, attention should be paid to timely dressing the grinding wheel to maintain its sharpness. When the grinding wheel becomes dull, it will slide and squeeze on the surface of the workpiece, causing burns and a decrease in strength.

2. Reasonable use of cooling and lubricating fluids

Play the three major roles of cooling, washing, and lubrication, maintain the cleanliness of cooling, lubrication, and thus control the grinding heat within the allowable range to prevent thermal deformation of the workpiece. Improve the cooling conditions during grinding, such as using oil immersed grinding wheels or internally cooled grinding wheels. Introduce cutting fluid into the center of the grinding wheel, and the cutting fluid can directly enter the grinding area, exerting an effective cooling effect and preventing surface burns on the workpiece.

3. Reduce the quenching stress after heat treatment to a minimum level

Due to quenching stress and the effect of grinding force, the microstructure undergoes phase transformation, which can easily cause cracks in the workpiece. For high-precision molds, in order to eliminate residual stresses from grinding, low-temperature aging treatment should be carried out after grinding to improve toughness.

4. Eliminate grinding stress

The mold can also be immersed in a salt bath at 260-315 ℃ for 1.5 minutes, and then cooled in oil at 30 ℃. This can reduce the hardness by 1HRC and residual stress by 40% -65%.

5. Constant temperature grinding

For precision grinding of precision molds with dimensional tolerances within 0.01 mm, attention should be paid to the influence of environmental temperature, and constant temperature grinding is required. According to calculations, for a 300mm long steel component, when the temperature difference is 3 ℃, there is a variation of about 10.8 μ m in the material (10.8=1.2 × 3 × 3, with a deformation of 1.2 μ m/℃ per 100mm). The influence of this factor needs to be fully considered in all precision machining processes.

6. Adopting electrolytic grinding processing

Mold processing and manufacturing manufacturers improve the precision and surface quality of mold manufacturing. During electrolytic grinding, the grinding wheel scrapes off the oxide film instead of grinding metal, resulting in less grinding force and heat, and no occurrence of grinding burrs, cracks, burns, etc. Generally, the surface roughness can be better than Ra0.16 μ m; In addition, the wear of grinding wheels is relatively small. For example, when grinding hard alloys, the wear of silicon carbide grinding wheels is about 400% to 600% of the weight of the hard alloy ground. When using electrolytic grinding, the wear of grinding wheels is only 50% to 100% of the amount of hard alloy ground.

7. Reasonably choose the grinding amount

Adopting precision grinding methods with smaller radial feed rates or even fine grinding. If the radial feed rate and grinding wheel speed are appropriately reduced, and the axial feed rate is increased, the contact area between the grinding wheel and the workpiece can be reduced, and the heat dissipation conditions can be improved, thereby effectively controlling the increase in surface temperature.