The Flex-Hone Tool is a resilient, flexible honing tool with a soft cutting action. The tool’s unique construction allows the abrasive globules or “stones” to float, assuring the tool will be self-centering, self-aligning to the bore and self compensating for wear. The Flex-Hone is available in 11 different grits and 9 abrasive types. The Flex-Hone tool is available in standard sizes for bores ranging from 4mm to 36 inches. The Flex-Hone Tool produces a controlled surface condition unobtainable by any other method. The process involves finish, geometry and metallurgical structure. A high percentage plateau surface is produced free of cut, torn and folded metal. The process is a low temperature, low-pressure abrading system that exposes the undisturbed base metal structure to produce a long wearing surface; one that is metallurgically free of fragmented, amorphous or smeared metal from previous machining operations. A non directional or crosshatched pattern is created on the surface that contains valuable valleys between the plateaus for oil retention. Download pdf here.