Dimensioned technical drawing of Simaflex profiles compared by hand with a profile wheel and a calliper on the bench
Made to drawing · quote

Custom grinding wheels made to drawing: what we make and what we need to quote

We are leaders in the manufacture of abrasive wheels made to drawing. If the wheel you need is not in the catalogue, we make it: from a dimensioned drawing or from a sample, in silicon carbide or aluminium oxide, resinoid bond. Here you find what we can change, what to send us and how we reply.

step 1

What can be customised

An abrasive wheel is made of a handful of variables, and we can work on every one of them. We work closely with our customers: the starting point is always your operation, not our catalogue.

  • Shape and profile. Cup, cylindrical, depressed-centre, shaped profile. You draw the profile: ogee, half bullnose, or a shape of your own.
  • Diameter, bore and width. To the dimensions of your spindle and your machine.
  • Fitting. 22 mm bore, M14 thread, 5/8-11 thread, snail-lock quick-change.
  • Grit and hardness. Silicon carbide grit from C16 to C400; aluminium oxide from A16 to A220 for dressing diamond tools. Hardness set on the material you work.
  • Bond. Resinoid, the base of our whole production.
  • Steel backing plate. On cup wheels, for those who want them stiffer under load.
  • Material to be worked. Marble, granite, stone, ceramic and porcelain, and beyond stone: cork stoppers, cast iron, bronze, brass, ferrous metals.
Simaflex silicon carbide half bullnose profile wheels: the shape comes from the customer's drawing
half bullnose profile · your drawing decides the shape
step 2

What we need to reply

The more complete what you send us, the more accurate the quote at the first reply. The list, in order of importance:

  1. A dimensioned drawing, or a sample. A drawing with diameter, bore, width and profile; if you do not have one, the wheel you use today will do, even worn, or a piece of the edge you want to obtain.
  2. The machine and the fitting. Angle grinder, edge polisher, bridge saw or radial-arm machine, dressing bench; bore, M14, 5/8-11 or snail-lock.
  3. The material and the operation. What you work (marble, granite, porcelain, ceramic, cast iron, brass) and what you do (chamfer, honing, drip groove, profile, cutting, dressing).
  4. Wet or dry. It changes the bond and the hardness.
  5. Quantity and frequency. A trial piece, a batch, a recurring supply.
  6. For shaped profiles: the thickness of the stone and the letter of the profile.

You do not need all of it: call, and we work out the missing figures together on the phone.

What is needed to quote a custom wheel: dimensioned drawing of the profiles, a Simaflex sample wheel and a calliper
dimensioned drawing · sample · fitting dimensions
step 3

How we evaluate the drawing.

When a drawing arrives we look at it first as a wheel and then as an operation. As a wheel: whether the radius of the profile can be made with the grit requested, whether the width stands up to the speed of the machine, whether the bore is compatible with the flange. As an operation: whether that grit, on that material, wet or dry, does the job you expect or whether another one is needed.

If something does not add up, we do not quietly adjust it: we call you back with the proposed change and the reason. Dedicated technical support, from the drawing to the finished wheel.

step 4

Sizes and real terms

The ranges we produce in today, from the catalogue and to drawing:

VariableCatalogue range
Outside diameterfrom 76 to 400 mm
from the 76/64 cup to the cylindrical and profile wheels
Bore20-60 mm on cylindrical wheels · 22 mm on cup wheels and semi-flexible discs
Width2-150 mm on drip groove wheels and on dressing wheels
Fittings22 mm bore M14 5/8-11 snail-lock
GritsC16-C400 silicon carbide · A16-A220 aluminium oxide

Outside these ranges we do not say no up front: we evaluate it on the drawing.

how we reply
Who replies, and with what

A drawing or a sample is answered by someone from the workshop, with a technical proposal and the quote. Minimum order, lead time and trial sample depend on the wheel: we tell you in the reply, before you confirm.

Simaflex abrasive wheels of different diameters stacked in the warehouse, from cup to cylindrical
the production, from the 76/64 cup to Ø 400
the wheel and the quote

With a drawing or sample, the machine and the material: we come back to you with the wheel.

Phone, WhatsApp, email and the factory address are on the contact page: send the drawing from there, as a photo or PDF.