Brush Research BC23424 FLEX-HONE, 2-3/4" (69.9mm) Diameter, 240 Grit, Silicon Carbide, For Mild Steel, Stainless Steel, Cast Iron and Softer Ferrous Materials

Worked as it should.

Product work great for cleaning out lifter bores on small block Chevrolet

Used on my 2006 ktm 125sx and it worked amazingly, used honing oil and this and my cylinder was good as new!

Worth the money worked great for my motorcycle project

This is a great upgrade over regular 3 blade hones, especially for those that don't have much experience with regular hones. This hone is very easy to use and works very well, make sure you use a good lubricant while you hone, 10w30 oil is what I used. The one major downside to this and any other ball hone, over a regular hone, is that you can only use this hone for the specific size cylinders. Where 3 blade hones can be used for several different size cylinder bores. Other than that I would highly recommend this hone, it worked flawlessly for me.

I rebuilt the engine on my log sputter (first time attempting a rebuild). When I cleared the glaze from the cylinder, I found what was in the picture (which was the problem). Kept at it with the honer in the aluminum cylinder and presto! Took out enough to get past the groves but not born out so much I needed to order oversized rings!

Puts a nice finish hone on a cylinder. Easy to use and fit properly.

Used this to hone both cylinders of a 22 hp Briggs VTwin lawn tractor engine that needed a new connecting rod, a new piston and 2 sets of rings. Honing the cylinders is needed to allow the rings to break in and seat properly. Since I don’t expect to do this regularly I was between a cheap set of honing stones for around $20 and the Flex hone which I’d seen on YouTube and was selling on Amazon for $37. The reviews on the honing stones were terrible (cheaply made and inconsistent result) and the flex tool reviews while not numerous were mostly positive. Several excellent YouTube videos by the manufacturer and a call to the seller about whether the 3 inch (180 grit) tool would be good for my 2.96 inch cylinder convinced me it would be worth the extra cost for the Flex hone tool. What a FANTASTIC result in less than 10 minutes to do both cylinders following the video instructions of coating the tool with clean oil and moving in and out of each cylinder for 1 minute. Perfect cross hatched pattern on both. Great tool and good value considering the $200 of parts and many hours of labor to complete this project.