Industrial Use Brushes

Brushes are really tools. Each filamant in itself is a cutting tool or will be if it is worked on its tip. The proper effect is realized by using the tips of these thousands of filaments at the proper speed with the proper pressure to the work piece. A common belief is that brushes need to be soft and oversized and that there must be some sort of “scrubbing action” coupled with a great deal of friction.

Supposing you have a very sharp edge on a machine part, whether it be a cut gear or whatever, a wheel brush may work extremely well by removing the edge and creating the desired radius without damaging or removing the metal on either side of the edge. This will only be accomplished by having the right diameter of wheel brush, the proper wire size depending upon the type of material which is to be worked, and the face width wide enough to give you sufficient product.

Finally, sufficient power and speed with the brushe rotating near its maximum safe limits and the brush wire tips applied only to the edge that requires the metal removal – in such a fashion that the brush wires themselves will not be deflec- ted or bent. Flexing the wires may cause them to bend and sometimes vibrate and will re- sult in wire fatigue at the base causing breakage.