Aluminum powder products offer many advantages over other metal powders due to aluminum’s inherent corrosion resistance, lightweight density, machinability and …
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Silicon Carbide
Silicon Carbide is manufactured from a high heat reaction of silica sand and carbon. While silicon carbide and silica share similar …
Read MoreJune 4, 2009
Blasting Stone with Sand
Question: I am thinking of purchasing a small business doing stone engraving. My only concern is blasting with the silica sand …
Read MoreJune 2, 2009
Steel Bluing
The process of bluing steel creates a micro finish on the steel surface to prevent corrosion and rust. Putting this type …
Read MoreMay 28, 2009
Polishing Brass Cartridges
Firearm ammunition reloading is becoming a much more popular pursuit for passionate shooters. This process requires cleaning and polishing the spend …
Read MoreMay 26, 2009
Stone Engraving
Question: I am thinking of purchasing a small business doing stone engraving. My only concern is blasting with the silica sand …
Read MoreMay 22, 2009
Kramer Grit Puts The Skid On Slippery Floors
You need 5,000 pounds of aluminum oxide in less than 36 hours. So who are you going to call?
Read MoreMay 21, 2009
Suction vs. Direct Pressure Blast Cabinets
The two basic types of abrasive blast cabinets are suction (or siphon) systems and direct pressure systems. While both types provide …
Read MoreMay 19, 2009
Abrasive Blasting Cabinets
The choice of abrasive blasting cabinet needs to made based on the type of blasting being done including the media type …
Read MoreMay 14, 2009
Non-Skid Flooring
Non-skid or anti-slip flooring is generally created by embedding an abrasive grit into a floor coating. The most versatile and durable …
Read MoreMay 12, 2009
Crushed Glass Grit Benefits
Crushed Glass Grit offer a number of environmental and performance benefits: Sourced from 100% recycled bottle glass diverting material from landfills …
Read MoreMay 7, 2009
Cleaning Copper
Before After In addition to deburring and polishing, vibratory tumblers can be used successfully to degrease, clean and remove oxidation …
Read MoreMay 5, 2009
Screen Separating Guidelines
The ability to separate parts from media must be taken into consideration early in the development of the finishing process. Keep …
Read MoreApril 30, 2009
Screen Separating Basics – Part 2
In the first post about screen separators, the different types of separators were noted. In addition to determining the type of …
Read MoreApril 27, 2009
Polish Engine Parts
Question: I have a smaller tabletop vibratory bowl that I am setting up to do small parts with. Mostly I am …
Read MoreApril 22, 2009
Stainless Steel Tumbling
Before and after of machined aluminum part tumbled with Stainless Steel Media. The ‘raw’ showed machine marks, scratches and burrs on …
Read MoreApril 22, 2009
Kramer Industries’ Grit Helps Preserve History
Cleaning layers of time off delicate ferrous artifacts used to be the job of electrolysis equipment and wire brushes. But according to historian and archeologist Robert Perry of Pell City, Alabama, the method of choice is now blasting away years of rust, grime and grunge with walnut shell and corn cob grit.
Read MoreApril 16, 2009
Benefits of Steel Tumbling Media
Given the investment required to purchase Steel Tumbling Media, why use it? It basically all comes down to weight and wear. …
Read MoreApril 14, 2009
Glass Bead Tumble Blasting
Large batches of relatively small parts that need to be blasted can be extremely labor intensive when blasting each part by …
Read MoreApril 8, 2009
9 Tips for Tumbling Media Selection
9 quick guidelines for selecting the proper tumbling media: 1. Large media will cut faster than small media of the same …
Read MoreApril 2, 2009
What is Tumbling Media?
Preformed tumbling media used in both vibratory and barrel tumblers are simply the means to achieving a desired surface finish. The …
Read MoreMarch 31, 2009
Media to Parts Ratio
The number of parts that can be tumbled (vibratory or barrel) will depend on the dimensions of the part and the …
Read MoreMarch 24, 2009
Polishing Aluminum Parts
Polishing aluminum parts to a very high, near mirror finish in a mass finishing process is very challenging. The relative …
Read MoreMarch 20, 2009
Vibratory Tumblers
Vibratory tumblers come in a wide range of sizes and shapes. The configuration of the vibe will determine the tumbling action …
Read MoreMarch 19, 2009
Kramer Polishing Grit Gives Design Studio A Handle On High-End Hardware
What makes the difference between an ordinary knob or cabinet handle, and something very special? In the case of one high-end design studio, a major point of difference is polishing with ceramic tumbling media.
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