Custom Tube Grinding Serving Grand Rapids MI

Sturdy Grinding offers custom tube grinding parts for your business!

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At Sturdy Grinding, we've been performing centerless end-feed, in-feed, or plunge-feed grinding for decades around Metro Detroit. Our skilled team of operators have a great deal of experience grinding multiple diameters, grinding shoulders, and grinding radii. We deliver top quality products with tight tolerances of up to .0002".

With every project and product, we have made a commitment to provide quality grinding services from the very beginning. We've been ISO certified since the early 1990's, well before other manufacturing companies our size. Over the years we have invested in the expansion of our Quality Control department, including purchases of advanced data gathering equipment along with the necessary software to analyze our quality over time. On average, our customer based quality rating is 4.85 our of 5 throughout the last 5 years.


Our Capabilities

Sturdy Grinding is able to provide outstanding quality and value on through-feed grinding operations thanks to our wide wheel machines, automated feed bowls, and experienced operators. We excel at grinding tight tolerance steel and stainless steel shafting and can provide you with the very best in quality, service, and value.

  • Thompson Shafting
  • Dowell Pins
  • Machine Gun Tripods
  • Bearing Pins
  • Air Craft Shafts
  • Microscope Shafts

Bar Stock Grinding in Grand Rapids MI

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Study Grinding offers a great deal of defect-free bar grinding experience. Our equipment can grind bars and tubes as large as 11" in diameter and as long as 40' in virtually any sort of metal used in modern manufacturing. In addition, we can supply heat treated rolls and shafting.

Similar, to through-feed grinding, bar grinding is a type of centerless grinding in which the bar passes through the machine. The bar rests on a fixed blade which is spun by a regulating wheel. While that's going on, an abrasive wheel grinds the work piece. Long bars ground in this fashion are supported by rollers on both ends of the machine.


CNC Grinding

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Sturdy Grinding routinely performs multi-diameter work with tight geometric requirements. we're capable of holding cylindricity, concentricity, run out, size, length, grind lead, and surface finish requirements. We measure these requirements with accuracy ranging within millionths of an inch.

OD grinding is a type of grinding in which the part is suspended by centers. A driver spins the part and a grinding wheel comes forward to machine the work piece. A large portion of today's automotive drive and shafting components are ground this way. Sturdy Grinding has some of the leading CNC OD grinders and inspection equipment to fill both high and low volume OD grinding orders.

CNC OD Capabilities

We produce tighter tolerances and mirror-like micro surface finishes on parts such as:

  • Axle Shafts
  • Transmission shafts
  • Drive Train Components
  • Armature Shafts
  • Flanges
  • Generator Rotor Shafts
  • Output Shafts

Need a special part?

Superior Tube Grinding Components In Grand Rapids MI | Sturdy Grinding & Machining - Finished_End_Feed_(2)_copyIn addition to our skilled operators, the management team at Sturdy Grinding has a great deal of experience quoting and process planning CNC OD grinding work. Contact Sturdy Grinding early in your process planning. We can put our experience to use by helping you plan the most cost effective process for your project. Call Us Today 586-463-8880.

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