"The Ring hangs out on the peaks and the Oil hangs out
in the Valley's... The Course stones cut the valleys
and the finer stones knock down the peaks to provide a
greater flat surface area for the rings to seal on."
Yes, Keith, that is essentially it. Even the fine
stones create small valleys of their own so unless you
intentionally set out to remove post-honing surface
defects, these peaks will remain. Plateau honing is a
series of surface overlayments. Depending on what
surface features you are after, depends on which
overlayment you alter. Regardless, surface defects
must be removed in all cases. I can find no good
reason to leave them.
Your description of torn and folded metal is spot on.
I can't improve on that.
John
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