Are you ready for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s, winter solstice, and other festive occasions this holiday season brings? Perhaps you’ve set out your decorations, made special treats, and invited friends and family members over the celebrate. Maybe you’ve picked up some special gifts for loved ones to enjoy in the coming year. Perhaps you’ve thought about what you’d like to leave behind in 2018 and embrace into your life more fully in 2019. This holiday season brings so many blessings – don’t forget to soak them in amidst all the hustle and bustle.
Looking forward to Santa’s visit? Perhaps you’ve carefully selected excellent gifts for each child in your family and you’re anxiously awaiting Christmas morning, so you can see their sweet faces light up as soon as they see the Christmas tree replete with gifts.
Even better than a gift from Santa
But since you’re an adult, do you know what would be even better than getting gifts from Santa? Ensuring your metal machinery performs at an optimal level every single day. But how could it do that, you may be asking yourself? The answer is simple – send all your most essential metal machined components to Extrude Hone AFM to undergo our patented process.
Real results
You’ll be amazed by how much better your components perform after being extrude honed. Custom-calibrated abrasive media is forced through each passageway of the component to meticulously remove burrs and polish each surface. This results in clear, burr-free passageways in every part of your metal components, as even the hardest-to-reach areas are deburred and polished.
Removal rates
The rate at which material is removed from the surface by the abrasive media slug depends on various factors of the workpiece and media:
Workpiece:
- Type of material
- Hardness of material
- Quality or density of material
- Size and amount of passages to be processed
Media:
- Media flow rate or speed of each pass or cycle
- Media carrier viscosity: high, medium, low, or different of 2 will change the characteristics of the media’s effectiveness on different materials and hole sizes
- Abrasive particle size: ranging from a fine powder-like 1000-grit to 8-grit comparable to small rocks or gravel
- Abrasive concentration per pound of media
Highly customized process
Every time someone contacts us to get an estimate for any kind of metal component, we customize our process to achieve exact intended results. AFM is a controllable machining process. The media flow rate, pressure, volume, type of media, media temperature, and, as a result, the amount of material that is removed can be adjusted according to each metal component’s needs. Each application of the AFM process is carefully recorded – surface finish improvement, radius generation, and/or stock removal is always determined and noted to ensure repeatability.
Ready to get started?
Now is the perfect time to investigate how much it would benefit you and your work to have your key metal components extrude honed. Give us a call at (562) 531-2976 or fill out this form to request your custom estimate today.
