More About the Nylon Fill Material

The specific application for a brush or how it is going to be used, determines the components that go into making a brush. The main structural components are the fill material and the handle, block, or frame material. Fill and handle material can be of many different substances. Nylon is one such fill material.

Nylon fill material is used as a brush because it is exceptionally tough, strong, flexible, has excellent elasticity, is durable, abrasion and chemical resistant, and able to withstand extreme heat. Nylon, an organic thermoplastic, comes in a variety of filament types. Common nylon filaments are nylon 6, nylon 66, nylon 610, nylon 612, nylon 11, and nylon 12. Each of the different filaments has a different abrasive capacity and grit. The properties of nylon brushes are related to their bristle grade, length, and diameter.

Handle, block, or frame material is either wood, plastic, or metal. Some brushes do not have a handle. These types of brushes attach directly to power tools or cleaning equipment. These classes of brushes include cylinders, large flat ovals, wheel shapes, centerless cylinders, cup brushes with or without a shank, and others.

Nylon can be adapted, shaped, and configured for many different types of brushes such as, scrubbers for floor machines, cylinder brushes, wheel brushes, cup brushes, twisted-wire-brushes, strip brushes, and hand brushes and have many different uses from ones that can clean your teeth to ones designed to remove rust, paint, grime, and contaminants. The wide use of nylon brushes is due to their many grades, grit types, configurations, and mechanical properties.

Nylon brushes can be used for many different purposes such as abrasion, washing, cleaning, various applications including, painting, applying coatings, getting into hard-to-reach areas, polishing, as a static eliminator, pipe cleaning, conveyors, and wood distressing.

These brushes are essential in many industrial processes such as aerospace, agriculture, automotive, firearms, food processing, medical supplies and instruments, and glass processing, the military, electronics, printing, among others. Regardless of the operation or application, a nylon brush is used to clean, finish, coat, or remove static and contaminants.

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