Custom Twisted-In-Wire Brushes Meet Your Needs

One of our most popular brush designs is the twisted-in-wire brush. This style of brush is used in a range of industries, including laboratory work, industrial and agriculture cleaning, polishing, reaming, or finishing, and many more examples. Here at Fuller&#;s Custom Brush division, we have long set the standard for superior design, exceptional quality, and outstanding customer service. We strive to meet or exceed our customers&#; expectations for quality, performance, and value. Our twisted wire brushes are an excellent example of our goals, because we find solutions that meet exacting specifications for OEM components, consumer applications, production parts, manufacturing processes, and various manual uses.

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Understand the Differences of Twisted-In-Wire Brushes

Twisted-in-wire brushes are manufactured into various shapes using varying fill material. The fill material is twisted between two sections of wire to create a single-stem, single-spiral construction. The brush face can be manufactured up to 50 inches. Twisted-in-wire brushes are also known as twisted brushes, tube brushes, bottle brushes, and power cleaning brushes.

Twisted-in-wire brushes have fill, or bristle, material inserted between the two strands of a doubled wire stem, which is then twisted into a brush. To start making a twisted brush, we take a length of wire made of galvanized steel, stainless steel, or brass wire and bend it to double it. We then place the fill material between the top and bottom of the doubled-over wire and twist it up.

Common fill materials used in these brushes are either nylon, polyester, horsehair, brass, steel, or stainless steel. However, for brushes that will be used for more aggressive deburring actions and need an extended brush life, aluminum oxide filament or silicon carbide is used as the fill material.

Common applications of twisted wire brushes include cleaning, polishing, reaming, finishing, or removing debris on surfaces. Twisted wire brushes are used to clean medical and lab equipment and devices, parts in metal and automotive shops, or coils and piping. You may even use them at home to clean bottles or other containers, computers or electronics, or sporting equipment and firearms.

What Goes into a Custom Twisted-in-Wire Brush?

We have a variety of custom styles and materials to best fit our customers&#; needs, as determined by the intended application. Customers should understand, we can completely customize twisted-in-wire brushes, including changing the length and diameter to suit any need. Factor in the different options of fill material and styles, and we can create nearly any custom twisted wire brush.

Think about the options that we can add into your brush, but don&#;t be overwhelmed. Our brush design team can help you create the brush you need. The brush face can be manufactured up to 50 inches long. Here are the considerations:

Base Wire Material: The base wire is the wire that is twisted from a selected material, including galvanized steel, stainless steel, or brass wire.

Fill Material: The fill material is twisted between two coated or stainless steel wires to create a single-stem, single-spiral construction. Our range of fill material includes:

• Bassine: Extremely useful for cleaning hard surfaces, including ceramic tile, terrazzo, linoleum and vinyl, and concrete.
• Goat hair: For a delicate touch, such as dusting, applying cosmetics, or forensics.
• Horsehair: This natural fiber is used for polishing and cleaning, and is less abrasive alternative than synthetic or metal fills. Horsehair is also often used dry in anti-static environments or for applying adhesives.
• Polyester: For applications that require a bristle with low water absorption, polyester is a good choice. It remains stiff, even in liquid, and is resistant to bacteria and microorganisms.
• Polypropylene: We call it polypro, and it resists water, retains its stiffness in wet or dry conditions, and is bio-resistant. The material is largely resistant to typically damaging industrial chemicals or solvents, as well as acids, alcohols, or oils.
• Tampico: Useful for light cleaning or scrubbing, this natural fiber resists heat and chemicals, yet is highly water absorbent. It&#;s a popular fill for bakery brushes.
• Stainless steel: Used in tool fabrication and finishing, this fill is resistant to corrosion and heat. Brushes made from this material also are used on conveyors and for heavy-duty cleanings, such as rust, corrosion, and paint removal.
• Steel: Steel is appropriate for use on surfaces that have varying texture and porosity, such as wood, metal, concrete, and stone. Fine bristles are suitable for polishing, while the stiffer wire is used to abrade or remove build-up or corrosion.

Style of Brush End: Style choices include cut, handle, and loop.

Style of Brush Tip: Style choices include bottle, cut, fan, loop, and fan tuft.

How to make new wood look old: The Restorer comes with a huge range of heads that you can put in it for cleaning up old wood or adding texture to new wood look like old wood.  Keep in mind the heads range in aggressiveness from the WRTS01 twisted steel wire wheel to the tampico wood polishing brush.

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This is the WRTS01 twisted steel wire brush which is the most aggressive on wood surfaces.

You can see that is a really aggressive head that goes down deep and tears out fibers and puts grooves in the boards.  Now this would only be stage for this process, and I will show you with this other heads how I would clean this up afterwards.

Now we will move onto the next aggressive which is this WRSS01 stainless steel wire brush.

Now you can see that it does a really nice job going down and ripping out the loose fibers and reveals the grain lines in the boards.

Next, we will move on to the WRBW80 80grit nylon brush which is the last one that I would use in this initial phase adding smoother character to the new wood.

As you will see all that the nylon brush is doing is tearing out some of the soft fibers and giving it that wind-blown effect.

Now for the third step I would use this WRPW12 120grit profile flap wheel or as I would like to call it the &#;flapper sander&#;

Now that we have created the grooves in the new wood, we want to be able to get down into those grooves and valleys and clean them out and make them look like they have been around a couple hundred years.

Now you can really see how this profile flap wheel really gets down into the valleys of the wood grain and smooths it over leaving a nicely finished surface that is smooth to the touch.

Now the WRTB01Tampico polishing brush is the final step, and it really helps to polish the wood and help that character to really show up in the sunlight. It will get down into the valleys and clean out any remaining soft fibers and debris sweeping that surface clean.

Now it has been my experience that different types of wood, different ages of wood and different species of wood require a different combination of these brushes and drumheads to get the end effect that I want, so it is best to get a range of brushes and start with a less aggressive brush than you think you may need.  Then you can slowly approach the level that gives you the right amount of character that you are looking for.  Other times you may need the WRBW80 80grit nylon brush and one of the other sanding heads and this is the reason that makes the Restorer the most versatile tools for this job allowing you to use all these awesome heads for only one tool giving you a lot of options and flexibility in how you prep and clean your wood.

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