Cleaning Welding Discoloration

Welding steel is a process of creation and transformation. However, it leaves behind its unmistakable mark: heat discoloration, welding burns, streaks ... Read More

Glass Bead Blasting Machined Aluminum

Blasting machined aluminum is where precision meets ingenuity, transforming raw, rugged parts of aluminum into polished perfection. This process isn’t about ... Read More

10 Blasting Bullets

10 quick abrasive blasting tips: Nozzle size determines the air requirement (CFM), not the pot size. Pressure systems are more efficient ... Read More

Walnut Shell and Brick

Removing paint from brick can often be a process that requires a difficult combination of aggressiveness and delicateness. Brick (and concrete ... Read More

Etching Steel

Question: I am looking at using media blasting to identify/mark items made from stainless steel sheet using stencils to allow shielding ... Read More

Blasting with Steel Shot

Steel Shot and Steel Grit are some of the most effective media due to their extreme re-usability and lack of dust ... Read More

Metal Hardness

The hardness of the metal (or plastic) to be finished is a critical factor in determining the ultimate surface finish in ... Read More

Abrasive Blasting Cabinets

Abrasive blasting cabinets are made to give a tidy and controlled space for working with blasting materials. These strong cabinets make ... Read More

Surface Finishing Specifications

The Steel Structures Painting Council (SSPC) has designated fifteen different surface preparation standards including simple solvent cleaning (SP-1) to Commercial Blast ... Read More

Steel Shot & Air Blasting

Air blasting with either Steel Shot or Steel Grit provides a couple of unique challenges. Because of the weight of the ... Read More

Log Home Blasting

Here is a great picture of a do-it-yourself log home blasting project. The blaster being used is a relatively small KF100DM ... Read More

Matching Nozzle Size and Grit Size

Question: I would like to know if there is a standard for matching Nozzle opening size to media size. I am ... Read More

Motorcyle Parts

Question: I want to clean/polish an aluminum motorcycle engine. Would walnut shell be the best media for the job? I want ... Read More

Aluminum Oxide

Aluminum Oxide (a.k.a. aluminium oxide, alumina, aloxite, corundum) is generally sourced from bauxite ore. While bauxite is the primary ore for ... Read More

Four Times is Twice as Big

Just one more quick comment on CFM, nozzle size and blasting… I discussed a little about the differences and relationship between ... Read More

Corn Cob Grit Hard as Iron!

All solid materials can be measured for hardness on the Mohs scale. The scale was created in 1812 by Freidrich Mohs ... Read More

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