What are Industrial Brushes?

Industrial brushes are used for deburring, edge blending, and radiusing; weld, oxide, and scale removal; and surface finishing, cleaning, polishing, and roughening. Wire brushes consist of thousands of filaments, with each tip serving as a cutting or cleaning tool.  An industrial brush will perform its best when it is exactly the right size and the right type for the job and is operated at its highest safe speed with the lowest possible pressure.

Wheel Brushes and Power Brushes

Wheel brushes offer an example of why it’s important to size industrial brushes properly. A type of power brush, wheel brushes are used to remove sharp edges from metal parts and create a desired radius. If they are sized improperly, however, wheel brushes can damage or remove metal from either side of the edge. When selecting wheel brushes, buyers should select products with the proper diameter and wire size. The brush’s face width must be wide enough to work the edge, but the brush’s tips must only work the edge that requires material removal.       

Cleaning Brushes, Deburring Brushes, and Custom Brushes

The Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM) website provides product information and technical books to help you select the right size and type of industrial brush. For example, a BRM technical booklet called The Use of Industrial Brushes illustrates key measurements such as outside brush diameter, shank diameter, and stem diameter; trim length, arbor hole, and face width; and cup diameter, brush part length, and overall length. Whether you need cleaning brushes, deburring brushes, custom brushes, or the Flex-Hone® tool BRM has over 50 years of experience solving difficult finishing problems with brushing technology.