BRM Announces How Ball Honing Improves Cylinder Surface Finish

Brush Research Manufacturing, a global supplier of surface finishing solutions, is announcing user feedback about its Flex-Hone® tool for cylinder wall surface finishing. In a YouTube video entitled "Ball Honing a Pneumatic Cylinder," a Flex-Hone® user demonstrates how rotating the workpiece instead of the flexible cylinder hone can also impart a superior surface finish.

Flexible cylinder hones are low RPM tools, and speed is dependent upon tool diameter. Typically, users secure the ball hone in a collet, chuck, or similar holding device and then rotate the tool along with the spindle.

Cylinder Wall Surface Finish

Pneumatic cylinders are mechanical devices that use a compressed gas (such as air) to move a piston in a reciprocating, linear motion. In single-acting cylinders, the compressed gas forces the piston in only one direction, usually outward, and a spring provides the return motion. In double-acting cylinders, pressure causes the piston to extend and then retract.

Flexible hones also have a double-wire metal stem for mounting in handheld power tools or production machinery. Because these cylinder honing tools are self-centering, self-aligning to the bore, and self-compensating for wear, no special training is required.

About Brush Research Manufacturing

Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM), maker of flexible honing tools and nylon abrasive brushes, is located in Los Angeles, California. Devoted to difficult finishing problems with brushing technology, BRM is capable of producing the Flex-Hone® toolup to the standard against which all other cylinder hones are compared.

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