Rockin' Red Dressing Stone – Rubber-bond, Shatter-resistant
Rockin' Red Dressing Stone – Rubber-bond, Shatter-resistant
The RTC Rockin' Red Dressing Stone is a rubber-bond, shatter-resistant dressing stone for reopening glazed diamond blades, core bits, hole saws and grinding wheels.
RTC's differentiator here is the bond: a shatter-resistant rubber bond, newly reformulated with a higher concentration of alumina. The rubber bond is what lets the stone survive the drops and knocks that break a rigid vitrified stick on a job site. Distributor specifications list the blank at 4 in. x 2 in. x 1 in.
Key Features
- Shatter-resistant rubber bond — survives being dropped on site
- Reformulated with a higher concentration of alumina (aluminum oxide)
- Reopens glazed diamond blades, core bits, hole saws and grinding wheels
- 4 in. x 2 in. x 1 in. blank per distributor specifications
What's Included
- One dressing stone; RTC supplies this line 10 per case
Who Is This For?
Site crews and fabricators who dress tooling in the field, where a rigid stone gets dropped. Shop users who want maximum raw abrasive instead should look at the Mean Green stone in the same line.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why choose a rubber-bond dressing stone?
A rubber-bonded stone flexes rather than fracturing, so it resists shattering when dropped — the usual way a dressing stone is lost on a job site.
What does dressing a diamond blade actually do?
It abrades away the bond matrix holding the diamond, exposing fresh sharp diamond at the cutting surface. It restores a tool that has glazed or loaded; it cannot add diamond back to a tool that is genuinely worn out.
Which stone is more abrasive, the red or the green?
RTC does not rank them by grit — the published difference is bond and alumina concentration. The Mean Green stone is sold on the highest aluminum oxide concentration; this red one is sold on a shatter-resistant rubber bond with reformulated alumina.
My CNC process sheet specifies a dressing grit — can I use this?
RTC publishes no grit for its dressing stones, so where a process sheet calls for a specific grit you need a dressing stick that states one, such as the 150 Grit Aluminum Oxide CNC Dressing Stick.