Technical Books – How to Select and Use BRM Products

The Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM) website offers free, downloadable technical books that explain how to select and use the Flex-Hone® tool and our full line of industrial brushes. Each technical book is available in .pdf format and viewable in your browser.   

Flex-Hone® Resource Guide
This brief, informative guide explains how to select the right flexible honing tool for your application, and how to use the Flex-Hone® for optimal surface finishing. From tool diameter, abrasive type, and grit selection to suggested RPMs and recommended lubrication, the Flex-Hone® Resource Guide provides answers to your frequently asked questions (FAQs). This brief technical book also offers an overview of Flex-Hone® applications for cylinder wall deglazing, cross-hole deburring, and plateau finishing.
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The Use of Industrial Brushes
Industrial brushes are cutting or cleaning tools for deburring, edge blending, polishing, scale removal, roughening, and other surface improvement applications. There’s a right way and a wrong way to use power brushes, so this 12-page guide describes safety requirements and proper techniques for surface finishing. The Use of Industrial Brushes also covers brush tool terminology and examines the different types of BRM industrial brushes, including the NamPower™ family of brush products.
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The Gold Booklet
The Gold Booklet is a reprise of BRM’s original Gold Book, a trusted resource written by Flex-Hone® founder Steve Rands and translated into 15 languages. At 12-pages long, this revised technical book is packed with information and written in the same easy-to-understand style as the original. The Gold Booklet describes common practices in cylinder boring, honing, and cylinder wall finishing. It also offers suggestions and recommendations for two- and four-stroke engines and piston ring seating.
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Future in Finishing: The Flex-Hone® Tool in Aerospace Applications
In just three pages, this technical publication explains how aerospace companies, aircraft manufactures, jet engine builders, and aviation MROs are using flexible hones and industrial abrasive brushes for deburring, edge blending, and surface finishing. As the examples explain, choose BRM’s Diamond Flex-Hone® tool for surface finishing hard materials like carbide, ceramic, and aerospace steel alloys.  
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In our next blog entry, we’ll describe three more technical books that are free, downloadable, and available only from Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM).