Contact Details
Abtex Corp. has added diamond filament brushes to its line of abrasive filament brushing tools. The new brushes are available in all of Abtex's brush configurations, and are mounted on the company's proprietary, molded, composite cores and backing materials.
Diamond abrasive grains are impregnated into Abtex's nylon fiber to produce hard, aggressive abrasive filaments. This, combined with Abtex's unique construction method, results in extended brush life, according to the company.
Diamond abrasive filament brushes are fast becoming the preferred medium for honing carbide cutting tools and finishing harder metals. These tools can also be used for deburring and finishing glass, ceramic and aerospace alloys.
Abtex notes diamond abrasive filament brushes are application specific. The company tests parts every day in its lab to determine if customer applications are suitable for this or any of its products.
Related Glossary Terms
- abrasive
abrasive
Substance used for grinding, honing, lapping, superfinishing and polishing. Examples include garnet, emery, corundum, silicon carbide, cubic boron nitride and diamond in various grit sizes.
- alloys
alloys
Substances having metallic properties and being composed of two or more chemical elements of which at least one is a metal.
- backing
backing
1. Flexible portion of a bandsaw blade. 2. Support material behind the cutting edge of a tool. 3. Base material for coated abrasives.
- brushing
brushing
Generic term for a curve whose shape is controlled by a combination of its control points and knots (parameter values). The placement of the control points is controlled by an application-specific combination of order, tangency constraints and curvature requirements. See NURBS, nonuniform rational B-splines.
