What are the characteristics of high-quality honed tubes?

Honed tube is cylinder tube that have been honed or polished to achieve a smooth surface finish and tight dimensional tolerances. High-quality honed tube has several characteristics, including:

  1. Surface finish: High-quality honed tube should have a smooth and uniform surface finish, free from any roughness, scratches, or other defects that could affect their performance.
  2. Dimensional accuracy: The inside diameter, outside diameter, and wall thickness of honed tube must be precise and consistent to ensure proper fit and function.
  3. Material quality: The material used to make honed tubes should have high strength, durability, and resistance to corrosion and wear. Common materials include stainless steel, carbon steel, and alloy steel.
  4. Straightness: Honed tube should have excellent straightness to prevent any deformation or bending during use.
  5. Hardness: The hardness of honed tube should be appropriate for their intended use. Tubes used for high-pressure applications, for example, require greater hardness to withstand the stress.
  6. Surface hardness depth: The surface hardness depth of honed tube should be uniform and consistent.
  7. Microstructure: High-quality honed tubes have a fine and uniform microstructure, with no defects such as porosity, cracks, or inclusions.

Overall, high-quality honed tube should have excellent surface finish, dimensional accuracy, material quality, straightness, hardness, surface hardness depth, and microstructure. Honed tube is the critial material for hydraulic cylinder manufacturing and repairing, it is widely used as hydraulic cylinder barrel. So to ensure the quality of hydraulic cylinder, it is very important to use high quality honed tubes.

Guangxi Hydraulics is a high quality honed tube manufacturer and supplier in China. We produce high quality honed tubes with both metric sizes and inch sizes. Details of our honed hydraulic cylinder tubes are as below.

  • The size range is I.D 32 mm to ID 762mm (1.25 inch to 30 inch), see our detailed list of honed tube sizes.
  • Materials: SAE 1020, SAE 1026, ST 52.3, E355, SAE 4140, SAE 4130, 42CrMo, 27SiMn and so on.
  • Tolerance standard: ISO 286-2 H7, H8, H9, H10
  • Honed tube straightness: 0.5 mm per meter
  • Length: random mill length, optional fixed lengths (cut to length), max length 15 meters.
  • Inner surface roughness: Max Ra 0.4μm
  • Heat treatment: Stress relived annealing
  • Packing: each tube is oiled outer and internal, each tube end capped with plastic cap, packed in bundles with steel strips. Option packing with wooden cases.

High quality hydraulic honed cylinder tubes

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