Thread: Honing, Is it a big deal?

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there is many ideas floating around on how much hatch and how coarse to fine with no hatch the ring may not get hook up .to coarse and you will loose power and is hard on some types of rings i use the sunnen AN type hone at the bottom of dennys pic with a deck plate with main caps torque up this will give you round hole and draw cylinders in to operating shape when done i use a ultra finish plateau hone this is for a more consistent finsh on the walls and take any microscopic peaks off the bore. this helps the rings hookup i use this type of hone on all my hone. jobs even if i use a ball type hone and make sure the walls are very clean . all honing grit must be gone. here is my home made hoing cabinet the block set in the cabinet and honing oil is pump on the bore