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Cutting Tool Engineering, February 2011: High-Velocity Grind Page 1 of 9 February 2011 / Volume 63 / Issue 2 High-Velocity Grind By Susan Woods, Contributing Editor Courtesy of United Grinding An HVOF-coated aerospace part being ground on a Studer S-33 machine. Strategies for grinding HVOF-coated aerospace parts. Chrome may be flashy, but its days in the sun are numbered—including as a coating for aerospace parts. Engineered hard chrome has been applied to aerospace parts to increase wear resistance and repair or rebuild worn sections. However, the use of hard chrome in aerospace and other applications is being phased out because of environmental and health concerns with hexavalent chrome emissions from the chrome plating process. As a result, high-velocity oxygen-fuel thermal spray coatings are replacing hard chrome on many aerospace parts. HVOF coatings can be used for newly manufactured parts and for repairing worn parts. With worn parts, machinists typically remove a certain amount of material, eliminating the wear that has developed in the part. They rebuild that surface with HVOF coatings, according to Glen Rosier, applications engineering/business development, Abrasive Technology Inc., Lewis Center, Ohio, a superabrasives manufacturer. http ://www.ctema .com/aa a es/2011/110205-Grindin .html 2/22/2011 Cutting Tool Engineering, February 2011: High-Velocity Grind Page 2 of 9 While HVOF coatings were initially targeted as an alternative to hard chrome for health and safety reasons, they have proven to provide better wear and corrosion resistance than hard chrome. “The environmental reasons are important, but are not as big a driver as everyone thinks,” said Keith O. Legg, a senior analyst at Rowan Technology Group, Libertyville, Ill., a marketing and analysis firm specializing