BRM Brush Tools – Industries and Applications

What’s your application for Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM) products such as the Flex-Hone®, Diamond Flex-Hone®, and NamPower™ abrasive brushes? Did you know that the Flex-Hone tool is used for rotors and firearms, and that BRM makes many different types of industrial brushes? Here’s an overview of how industries and hobbyists use high-quality brushing tools from BRM. For more information about a particular application, just click the “More” link that follows the overview.      

Aerospace

The aerospace industry uses the Flex-Hone® tool for cutting and surface-finishing aerospace materials and space age alloys. The Diamond Flex-Hone® is ideal for chamfering, deburring, edge blending, and finishing hard materials like carbide, ceramic, and aerospace steel alloys. NamPower™ aerospace and aircraft brushes are ideal for parts deburring and surface conditioning after machining or grinding.
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Aluminum Extrusion

For air conditioners, condenser tubes, automotive radiators, and heat sinks, aluminum extruders need parts that are burr-free and slightly radiused. With its soft cutting action and low-temperature abrading process, the Flex-Hone® exposes aluminum’s base metal structure for a smooth, long-wearing surface. NamPower™ abrasive brushes are ideal for surface finishing and blending after machining or grinding.

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Automotive

Both the automotive industry and hobbyists use the Flex-Hone® tool for cylinder deglazing, deburring, engine block honing, and surface finishing. For any type and size of automotive cylinder, the Flex-Hone produces a crosshatch pattern for optimum lubrication. With cylinder deglazing, the Flex-Hone properly seats and seals new piston rings in car engines. BRM also supplies a full line of automotive brushes.
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Brass Instruments

With its cylindrical shape and self-centering design, the Flex-Hone® is perfect for cleaning, finishing, and polishing brass instruments with metal valves or slides. Abrasive nylon brushes from BRM are ideal for cleaning and deburring threads. During honing, musical instrument repair services use Flex-Hone® oil to treat brass surfaces.
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Earth Moving Equipment

Engine maintenance is critical for earth moving equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks, loaders, and graders. That's why companies like Caterpillar use the Flex-Hone® for deglazing, refinishing, and crosshatching cylinder liner walls during diesel engine overhauls. Industrial brushes for tasks ranging from injector cleaning to surface finish improvement round-out BRM’s product line.

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Fluid and Power

Companies that manufacture pumps and hydraulic cylinders rely on the Flex-Hone® to speed operations and improve surface quality. Pump manufacturers mount the Flex-Hone® in a standard drill chuck to remove burrs that could damage O-rings. Hydraulic cylinder manufactures use the Flex-Hone® to create a plateau surface finish for optimum lubrication. Abrasive nylon brushes are used to deburr threads.
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General Industry

The Flex-Hone® can be used either during machine tool applications or as a secondary operation. The Diamond Flex-Hone® is ideal for finishing chromed and plated bores, guide and drill bushings, ceramic cylinders, electrical discharge machining (EDM) layers, and carbide wear parts. Brush holders and drive arbors for NamPower™ abrasive brushes are used in automated finishing machinery.

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Hydraulics

Hydraulic toolmakers and hydraulic cylinder manufactures use the Flex-Hone® to remove burrs after boring and to improve surface finish to precise standards. For hard materials that require specialized surface finishing, the Diamond Flex-Hone® tool is recommended. BRM products include abrasive nylon brushes for cleaning and deburring machined threads.

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Marine

Marine service shops use large-bore flexible hones to maintain the big-bore diesel engines that power tankers, freighters, and other large ocean-going vessels. The Flex-Hone® tool is also used to refurbish marine pumps, valves, and hydraulic cylinders. NamPower™ abrasive brushes are great for cleaning fiberglass boats and  improving the surface finish of marine components.

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Military and Defense

Military installations and defense contractors use BRM’s flexible honing tools and industrial abrasive brushes for deburring, edge blending, and surface finishing hard materials. For amateur and professional gunsmiths, the Flex-Hone® tool for firearms delivers the marksmanship-like performance required by sound interior ballistics. NamPower™ abrasive brushes are used for blending tool marks.

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Oil and Gas
BRM brush tools help the oil and gas industry clean and service pipes, pumps, valves, hydraulic cylinders, and diesel engines. The Flex-Hone® tool can also be used to maintain critical tolerances in hydraulic cylinders used in pumps at petrochemical plants and chemical processing facilities. For cleaning and deburring threads, BRM's abrasive nylon brushes are the right choice.

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