Grinding

Grinding Services at Leech Industries

Leech specializes in all types of grinding to meet customer needs. Whether the project requires flat grinding, round grinding, form grinding or hole grinding, Leech can precisely grind parts of virtually any material, from one piece to thousands.

One-Stop Grinding Shop

Leech Industries serves as a one-stop shop for grinding services with surface, OD, cylindrical, Jig and custom grinding machines to handle parts that require different grinding methods, from flat grinds to round and hole grinds.

Available Grinding Methods

As a one-stop grinding shop able to hold tolerances to .00005”, Leech Industries can handle a wide variety of grinding methods from standard grinding to centerless grinding, including:

Cylindrical Grinding

When grinding cylindrical parts such as rods, pipes or shafts, we offer the following services:

• Centerless grinding: We can handle materials with outer diameters up to 2”. Additionally, we can produce complex and detailed shapes on our centerless ground components.
• Internal diameter (ID) grinding: We can ID grind pieces with internal diameters ranging from .0625” to 12”.
• Outer diameter (OD) grinding: We can grind cylindrical components with outer diameters ranging from .020” to 12”. For larger diameters, our OD grinders can handle lengths up to 36”.

Jig Grinding

• Hole and contour grinding: Leech’s Jig grinders can accurately grind holes and intricate contours, achieving specific tolerances and surface finishes.
• Great complexity: We can perform Jig grinding capabilities to produce complex parts, with surface finishes up to four microns and tolerance capabilities of .00005”.
• Concave grinding abilities: Our Jig equipment can grind concave and inwardly curved surfaces with exceptional precision and accuracy. These features can be difficult to achieve with alternative machining processes.

Surface Grinding

• Custom tooling and fixturing: As a tool and die company, we have the in-house capabilities to make our own custom fixturing and tools. This offers us the ability to tailor our tooling to our components’ unique shapes, sizes and complexities.

Materials That Can Be Ground

• Alloy steels
• Aluminum alloys
• Brass
• Carbide
• Carbon steels
• Copper alloys
• Many types of plastic, rubber and ceramic
• Nickel alloys
• Stainless alloys
• Super alloys, such as Inconel
• Titanium
• Tool steels