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News + Insights
Hydraulic Cylinders Reconditioned with Low-Cost Honing System
Hydraulic Cylinders Reconditioned with Low-Cost Honing System — Machine Pays for Itself in Less Than a Year
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Gun Barrel Honing System Hits Bullseye for Pac-Nor
Manufacturing precision rifle barrels has always been something of an art that involves hand lapping of the bore surface twice, before and after the rifling profile is cut or swaged in by a rifling button.
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Single-Pass Honing is Single Solution for Cloyes
What's not to like about a machining process that hits print tolerances with adjustment-free, 1.67 Cpk capability, while running 4000+ parts per day, six days a week?
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Smart Honing Technology for Aerospace Hydraulic Pumps
Shop's customers note new technology makes a 60 millionths tolerance look generous "We don't believe it!" – that's how experienced machinists reacted to their first encounter with a new honing system that produced nine bores per part with only 0.000020" (0.5 µm) variation, all day long, with essentially no operator attention. That's 2.21 Cpk process capability.
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Honing a Life-Saver for Aerospace Component Maker
Sonic Industries, part of the Sargent Aerospace & Defense Company, uses Sunnen SV-1000 to achieve performance-critical ID tolerances and finishes on life-saving fuse pins, reducing cycle times by 75%.
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