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.
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.