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Article: For plateau honing, consider ball style.(Tech Briefs)
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- Production Machining
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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The ball-style hone is a specialized abrasive tool that is instantly recognizable by its unique appearance. For engineers in the automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and machining industries, this application-engineered hone, characterized by the small, abrasive globules that are permanently mounted to flexible filaments, is a flexible, low-cost tool for sophisticated surfacing, deburring and edge blending.
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One example of such an application is "plateau" honing, a process by which cylinder walls are subjected to a bore-finishing procedure that increases the life of both the cylinders and the piston rings. The goal of plateau ...