sunnen shotgun hone price question

[gamma]

Ive been in contact with Sunnen in the USA,the company that manufactures all different honing devices.They contacted there Irish agents which is where Im from and they recomended a product with the following product code P3G-P20781UA-FO7X.My question is the price they quoted was 1339 EOROS which is roughly $950.Im thinking this seems pretty steep for a simple tool which is powered by an electric drill.I first came across this tool when Iwas searching through Youtube,I saw a guy called Larry Potterfield from Midway USA using it to polish up a shotgun barrel.If anyone has any advise on this I would welcome it,I think the product there quoting me on is perhaps not the tool I saw on Youtube and maybe you guys could advise me of a different product code.Many thanks.

 

[Preacher]

The gizmo Larry was using was a barrel hone from Brownells I believe.
They come in a couple of grits and work very well... and the prices are not bad..

 

[gamma]

Preacher,thanks for your reply but in all honesty could you see Larry Potterfield,the CEO of Midway USA advertising a product from Brownells.I think not.He actually says in the clip,that its a product made by Sunnen.

 

[tommyt]

Midway sells the same thing

 

[Preacher]

Brownells calls it a Flex Hone, and don't know who makes it but it sure works very nice.....

 

[457ciSBC]

P3G-P20781UA-FO7X.My question is the price they quoted was 1339 EOROS which is roughly $950.Im thinking this seems pretty steep for a simple tool which is powered by an electric drill.I first came across this tool when Iwas searching through Youtube,I saw a guy called Larry Potterfield from Midway USA using it to polish up a shotgun barrel.If anyone has any advise on this I would welcome it,I think the product there quoting me on is perhaps not the tool I saw on Youtube and maybe you guys could advise me of a different product code.Many thanks.

I watched the video and the part quoted by Sunnen appears the same tool that L. Potterfield is using. You noticed he said "the proper tool", but what he doesn't tell you is the cost of the tool and that Sunnen stuff isn't relatively cheap. If you walk into your local auto machine shop there's a good chance that you will find some type of Sunnen honing machine.

The tools that both Midway and Brownells sell are the cheap $10 three stone brake cylinder hone type tools or either the simple ball flexhone.

Mike

 

[tommyt]

There is a sunnen honing machine that lools like a lathe.