Honing Comes Full Circle

摘要

Brush honing avoids the problems associated with modern honing techniques by remaining faithful to the original intent of the process. When Joseph Sunnen first envi-sioned the modern honing pro-cess at the turn of the century, he saw it as a surface-finishing operation. Over the course of its evolution, however, honing has become a material-removal process used by machinists as a corrective for inadequate boring. But honing, which uses abrasive stones turning at low speeds inside the bore of a hole, does not remove material efficiently. Using hones as machining tools rather than surface-finishing tools can actually damage a metal surface.