Shooters Set Sights on New Flex-Hone® for Firearms Packaging

Flex-Hone® tools from Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM) impart the optimum surface finish to any type or size cylinder. With their abrasive globules and soft cutting action, BRM cylinder hones produce a plateau finish that promotes lubrication and reduces wear. By removing peaks produced by prior honing operations, plateau finishing creates a cross-hatched surface with oil-retaining grooves or valleys.

The Flex-Hone® tool’s low-temperature, low-pressure abrading process also provides a final finish that’s free of cut, torn, folded, or jagged metal. If left in-place, metal burrs can cause part misalignments and interfere with the performance of machined components. Though not a heavy-duty material removal tool, the Flex-Hone® performs deburring and surface finishing at the same time.

Cylinder Honing Tools for Versatile Surface Finishing

From marine engines to musical instruments, flexible honing tools have been used to solve a variety of surface finishing challenges. As Flex-Hone® for Firearms users know, the cylinder honing tool’s versatility makes it the right choice for maintaining slides, chambers, magazine tubes, and smooth bore barrels. Today, Flex-Hone® tools are available for shotguns, rifles, revolvers, pistols, and paintball guns.

Gun owners and gunsmiths also prefer flexible honing tools because of their ease-of-use. For example, by mounting a Flex-Hone® for Firearms tool in the chuck of an electric hand drill and applying a high-quality honing fluid (preferably Flex-Hone® oil), professionals and hobbyists alike can solve problems such as sticking and scarring. Gun manufactures can automate surface finishing by mounting Flex-Hone® tools in machining centers.

Brush Tool Storage and Identification

Recently, Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM) unveiled new Flex-Hone® for Firearms packaging that makes flexible hones as easy-to-find as they are to use. Instead of offering gun tools in disposable plastic bags, BRM now provides them in reusable tubes. Users who store Flex-Hone® for Firearms tools in the original packaging can now simply read the label for information such as part number and description.

As with other types of BRM flexible honing tools, the Flex-Hone® for Firearms is also color-coded. For example, the color on the tip of the gun hone indicates the grit type. The color marked on the stem of the brush tool indicates the abrasive type. Users can refer to this color coding and reference the Flex-Hone® Resource Guide, and they can also identify BRM gun tools based on the reusable packaging.

Feedback from Firearms Owners

So far, the feedback from firearms owners has been extremely positive. In a recent Facebook post about BRM’s new Flex-Hone® for Firearms packaging, one user called the reusable tubes “brilliant”. Another described them as “clean, bold, and eye-catching.” A third user described the new packaging as “matching the quality of the product – fantastic!”

What do you think of the new Flex-Hone® for Firearms packaging? Will you keep your BRM gun tools in these reusable tubes so that your cylinder hones are easier to identify and store? Please let us know by commenting on this blog entry. Thank you!