Media blasting equipment
Media blasting equipment are all media which we use for sandblasting and also all equipment used fro sandblasitng. And there is a lot of it, both media and other equipment.
From media you have all from aluminum oxide, walnut shells, steel shots, glass beads, plastic abrasives and more and more. Different types are used for different kind of work, from high abrasives to polishing media, you can use all.
And equipment is also important for work. Different size sandblasters are used for different work. And that is just machine. When we come to nozzles we have a lot o them, smaller for more precise work and big for stripping large areas in one go.
Which media and which equipment we use is based from knowledge what marked offers and from our knowledge and experience about sandblasting.
Different sandblasting media
Sand blasting uses many different media for polishing and abrasing surface. Some of this media is natural and for making that you don’t need to engineer anything and on other side you have chemically produced compounds. There is not true or false here, one media is good for something while other is better on other part.
Most commonly used media in old times, which is stilll being used, just a lot less, is sand. Different sized grains of sand made different effect on surface. Nowadays sand is not used that much any more. Reasons are obvious, sand producec way to much dust which covert all the area where we work and is also hazardous to our health.
Lately sand has being replaces with other sandblasting media. Aluminium oxide, glass beads, plastic abrasives, steeel grid, steel shot and many other edia has more or less totaly replaced sand.
These newer sandblasting media produce a lot less dust, can be reused up to 50 and more times and have better effect on surface.
