What Type of Media Should You Use??Aluminum Oxide: Widely used as a cutting media. It can produce an "anchor" pattern in preparation for recoating. It is excellent fro removing heavy foreign matter, deburring, frosting glass, plastic, and lettering stone. It is extremely fast cutting, can be used many times and is classified in various sizes for a wide selection of finishes.
Glass Beads: Available in a wide range of sizes. Glass beads are the most popular media used in cabinets today. This all-purpose media is used for honing, polishing, peening, blending, finishing, removing light burrs, and cleaning most light foreign matter such as carbon and other surface residues from pistons, valves, etc. All with no base-metal removal or dimensional change. Weld and solder flaws can also be detected via glass blasting.
Walnut Shells: This soft aggregate is used in blasting processes for removal of foreign matter or coatings from surfaces without etching, scratching, or marring the cleaned areas. Examples of applications include cleaning of delicate molds, armatures, and electric motors prior to rewinding. Will not harm internal engine parts and is bio-degradable.
Plastic: This relatively new, dust free media is a special formulation of plastic material that has a high tensile, compressive and flexural strength, combined with comparatively low hardness. used for deflashing plastic parts and cleaning molds, dies, electronic connections, and circuit boards. it can effectively deburr machined-iron castings and non-ferrous screw parts.
Steel Shot/Grit: Steel Shot is a solid, round particle causing a peening action and producing a dimpled surface. Its heavy weight gives greater impact and hammering action for peening and cleaning heavy forgings and removing heat treat scale. Steel Grit is angular, and acts like thousands of tiny chisels and cutting tools, and does a fast cleaning job. produces an ideal surface for adherence of new coatings.
Custom Mixes: often medias are mixed and combined with each other to achieve different effects and finishes. The combinations are almost limitless. Let Ace Stripping, Inc. experts create a custom mix to perfectly suit your needs.
