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Key Steel at Coventry Grinders

Metric and Imperial Key Steel at Coventry Grinders

As specialists in the supply of gauge plate and silver steel, Coventry Grinders are also very proud to supply metric and imperial key steel.

Key steel is a basic consumer material that is found in a range of everyday items such as door handles. The metal is produced from specially processed bars of the type usually used to make machine keys. Coventry Grinders believe key steel is a very versatile product that can be used for a variety of applications, such as in factory machine shops, maintenance departments and precision engineering.

The key steel offered by Coventry Grinders is made from a EN8 bright drawn medium carbon steel and conforms to BS4235. It also has a reasonable tensile strength, hence its application in engineering. Coventry Grinders stock a full industry-standard range of key steel. It can be used practically and in keyed assembly.

We offer a full standard range of both metric and imperial size ranges. Our metric range can be found here and here is our imperial range of key steel.

As well as offering a wide range of gauge plate and key steel, Coventry Grinders are technical distributors of grinding wheels and abrasive products. We are also proud to be stockists of many leading brands. If you would like to learn more about us please click here. You can also view our great online shop here. Don’t forget you can contact us with any queries you may have via 024 7623 3933 or email us at info@coventry-grinders.co.uk.

Grinding Wheels at Coventry Grinders

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Coventry Grinders was established in the 1930s and, we have served the ever-growing and demanding industry ever since. We are very proud of our history and our commitment to the engineering sector.

Grinding wheels are an abrasive product Coventry Grinders specialise in. We offer grinding wheels by Norton, the world’s premium abrasive brand. The Norton Vitrium 3 grinding wheels, in particular, offer superior grain holding properties which can significantly improve wheel form and corner holding, reducing dressing time and dresser wear. If you would like to learn more about worldwide market leader Norton please click here, and you can view our selection of Norton abrasives here.   Continue reading

Supplier Profile: Norton

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Coventry Grinders are specialists in the supply of gauge plate, silver steel, grinding wheels, abrasives and diamond products.

Coventry Grinders are proud to be a technical distributor of Norton at Coventry Grinders and to have worked closely with this prominent supplier for many years. Norton are the world’s premium abrasive brand, and are part of the larger organisation Saint-Gobain. Saint-Gobain Abrasives take their time to understand and fulfil their evolving customer needs, something which is reflected in their worldwide market leader status. This is perfectly replicated by Norton who offer a complete range of high performance products designed to perform in any abrasive application in all industrial markets. Coventry Grinders believe Norton are a well established organisation who have earned their place at the forefront of the industry by offering highly engineered value-adding abrasive solutions. Continue reading

Coventry Grinders eBay shop

Coventry Grinders eBay shop

Coventry Grinders are specialists in supplying gauge plate, grinding wheels, abrasives and silver steel. Our expertise and extensive product range makes us a popular choice for engineers and toolmakers for over 20 years.

Following our recent success of the Coventry Grinders’ website, we have extended our online presence with our very own eBay shop. With over a hundred products available and more to be added, our eBay shop offers an extensive range of Coventry Grinders’ products. Whilst being perfect for individuals who are looking to purchase either standard or bespoke gauge plate, ground flat stock, silver steel or key steel products.  Continue reading

Silver Steel at Coventry Grinders

Silver Steel at Coventry Grinders

Coventry Grinders are proud to be specialists in supplying silver steel. Silver steel is a high carbon bright steel, which we can grind to very close tolerance.

With all work locally produced our silver steel is a good multi-purpose steel. The silver steel we offer is a highly versatile product perfect for many of your engineering applications, because it can achieve high hardness levels due to its high carbon and chromium content.

Here at Coventry Grinders we offer a large size range of silver steel perfect for all customer needs, in both metric and imperial diameters. Some non-standard sizes are also stocked and Coventry Grinders are able to produce other non-standard sizes upon request; just contact us to let us know what you need!

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