Silicon Carbide Grit Blasting Media

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Silicon Carbide Grit is the hardest abrasive media. This blasting media has very fast cutting action and can be recycled and re-used many times. The hardness of Silicon Carbide Grit allows for shorter blast times relative to other blasting media.

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Silicon Carbide Grit Blasting Media

Silicon Carbide Grit is the hardest blasting media available. This high-quality product is manufactured as a hard, blocky, angular grain shape. This media will break down continuously resulting in sharp, cutting edges. The hardness of Silicon Carbide Grit allows for shorter blast times relative to softer medias.

Silicon Carbide Grit can be used many times over in applications utilizing tumblers (such as rock tumbling). As the media slowly breaks down, adding additional ‘fresh’ media will create a blend of particle sizes for extremely efficient cleaning and polishing.

With a high hardness close to 9.5 on the MOHS scale, it only exceeded by boron carbide and diamond grit. The lower cost of Silicon Carbide Grit makes it ideal for grinding a variety of metals and for other applications such as grinding wheels, ‘sand’ paper, abrasive blasting, lapping compounds, non-skid flooring and stairs, and general polishing and tumbling applications.

Benefits

High Purity with Minimal Contaminants
Highly Durable and Reusable
Long Lasting
Hardest Blasting Media
Very Fast Cutting Action
Very Heavy to Light Etching on Multiple Types of Surfaces
Contains Minimal Magnetic Content
Available in a Wide Variety of Mesh / Grit Sizes
Lighter than Metallic with a Denser Blast Stream
Silica Free

Blasting Applications

Etching and Carving of Hard Metals and Glass
Stone, Glass, and Metal Engraving
Prepping Surfaces for High-Performance Coatings
High-Performance Etching and Frosting
Micro-Blasting on Glass and Metal

General Applications

Dark Wood Parts Tumbling / Sanding
Rock and Stone Polishing
Concrete Additive to ‘Sparkle’ in Light
Abrasion Resistance
Slurry Polishing
Grinding
Edge Rounding in Tumbling
Wet and Dry Barrel Tumbling

Specifications

Silicon Carbide Grit Blasting Media Specifications
Mesh Size	Average Particle Size the smaller the mesh number, the coarser the grit	Spec Sheet
8 Mesh	45% 8 mesh (2.3 mm) or larger
10 Mesh	45% 10 mesh (2.0 mm) or larger
12 Mesh	45% 12 mesh (1.7 mm) or larger
14 Mesh	45% 14 mesh (1.4 mm) or larger
16 Mesh	45% 16 mesh (1.2 mm) or larger
20 Mesh	70% 20 mesh (0.85 mm) or larger
22 Mesh	45% 20 mesh (0.85 mm) or larger
24 Mesh	45% 25 mesh (0.7 mm) or larger
30 Mesh	45% 30 mesh (0.56 mm) or larger
36 Mesh	45% 35 mesh (0.48 mm) or larger
40 Mesh	45% 40 mesh (0.42 mm) or larger
46 Mesh	40% 45 mesh (0.35 mm) or larger
54 Mesh	40% 50 mesh (0.33 mm) or larger
60 Mesh	40% 60 mesh (0.25 mm) or larger
70 Mesh	40% 70 mesh (0.21 mm) or larger
80 Mesh	40% 80 mesh (0.17 mm) or larger
90 Mesh	40% 100 mesh (0.15 mm) or larger
100 Mesh	40% 120 mesh (0.12 mm) or larger
120 Mesh	40% 140 mesh (0.10 mm) or larger
150 Mesh	40% 200 mesh (0.08 mm) or larger
180 Mesh	40% 230 mesh (0.06 mm) or larger
220 Mesh	40% 270 mesh (0.046 mm) or larger
240 Mesh	38% 325 mesh (0.037 mm) or larger
280 Mesh	Median: 33.0-36.0 micron
320 Mesh	Median: 26.3-29.2 micron
360 Mesh	Median: 20.1-23.1 micron
400 Mesh	Median: 15.5-17.5 micron
500 Mesh	Median: 11.3-13.3 micron
600 Mesh	Median: 8.0-10.0 micron
800 Mesh	Median: 5.3-7.3 micron
1000 Mesh	Median: 3.7-5.3 micron
1200 Mesh	Median: 2.6-3.6 micron