Surface finishes from glass bead abrasive blasting
Surface finishes from glass bead abrasive blasting
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Anyone have any correlation on this involving time, velocity, pressure, and bead size?
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RE: Surface finishes from glass bead abrasive blasting
Basically it depends on many factors, what material are you looking to blast, what size are the parts, what volume of work will be done, how heavy is the material you are trying to remove rust/ paint, how good does the finish need to be?
I am not sure this will help but it might.
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RE: Surface finishes from glass bead abrasive blasting
For cleaning (e.g., removing paint & light oxide films), deburring, light or medium peening and as a final finish (sort of pearly on stainless, doesn't show fingerprints).
Common bead sizes 20-325 US mesh. There are 13 bead sizes listed (10-400 mesh) in MIL-PRF-9954B GLASS BEADS: FOR CLEANING AND PEENING at http
Need good dust filters since fine particulate & silicosis threat (OSHA).
Some brief info from the people who wrote the chapter on glass bead blasting in the Metal Finishing Guidebook
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You can post questions on their site.