The honing machine is used to refine the shape and the dimensions of metal and pottery objects.
Technically this kind of tool is made up by:
- an engine powered by electricity
- some rotating abrasive blades.
These disks can be made up by diamond, corundum or by silicon carbide. The corundum is an aluminium oxide and it is usually used to prepare special abrasives while the silicon carbide is a very tough mineral: its hardness is only surpassed by that of diamonds. Even this material, together with the previous ones, is used in industry as an abrasive and wayward material because of its resistance to high temperatures (up to two thousand centigrades).
The most common application of the honing machine is in the production of internal combustion engine cylinders and of hydraulic components.
Within the industrial production chain, the honing machine is used after that all the mechanical pieces have been corrected and polished. In the smoothing industrial processes the object that should be treated is inserted in the tool by maintaining a constant pressure of the blades.
This functional tool smooths materials thanks to its rotating and oscillatory movements by refining the object. The best application of this kind of machinery is applied in the automobile industry.
