WATSON Specialised tooling provides a variety of Sunnen Honing Machines, Honing is known as a finishing operation carried out after boring, reaming, or drilling to obtain precise geometry and surface finish.
Honing, in the last decade has become a process better described as bore finishing because the amount of stock removal and the rates at which it can be removed have increased substantially.
Honing has advances with the development of more advance systems, horizontal and vertical machines, with more precise adjustments and improved abrasives.
In application where one operation is not enough, honing systems with multiple spindles achieve the required surface finish and accuracy in several steps but with only one step up.
Many honing systems are now automated. In the last decade, the advent of single stroke honing with high speed tools has provided a cost effective solution for high production applications.
Portable honing tools and simple, manual honing machines are still adequate for small lots and are ideal for parts too big and awkward to bring to a machine, or for small or medium lot production.