Dressing a Grinding Wheel

Hi Everyone,
Ok, lets see a show of hands-how many of you have ever dressed a grinding wheel? Not many?
Heres hows its done or at least this is how I did it:
I use my grinding wheel as much as I use my lathe, or in other words, constantly. And the grinding surface had developed some deep grooves in it and it needed to be flattened out.
So I bought a wheel dresser:

It kind of looks like an old-fashioned safety razor and is just about the same size. The head of the dresser is embedded with industrial diamonds and its the diamonds that grind away at the surface of the wheel and flatten it.
The process is fairly simple-you turn on the grinder and firmly push the surface of the dresser into the wheel as it spins and then gently move it back and forth until the surface of the wheel is flat and square to the sides:

Viola! Youre done!
Now, I was so jazzed about the grinding wheel thing that I decided to begin working on Leons tea box which Ill do over the next several postings as it was a long, nerve wracking process.
See you in the post,
VW

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