The sandblasting material arrived on time in a well packaged condition. Here's a post on the subject over on metal meet. very common to use alum oxide instead of glass beads with coatings. Walnut shells or some crazy e36m3? Privacy Policy Look up sandblasting supply local to you in the YP? Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2019. While the health effects of inhaling silica are well known, do not be fooled into thinking coal slag is safe. Like sealing the thing up and you do have to have some type of dust removal system. HF carries it as well as a soda blaster. So far I haven't found much that it couldn't take off, including rust and paint. 
The motor finally died so now I my old shop vac. Also what is the general consensus on what to use on slightly rusty/ painted surfaces like suspension etc.? Where are yall buying your blasting cabinets?
It's so small, I don't know if it will be enough to let the cabinet blast continously without me banging on it to knock more down into the hopper. McMaster, I've bought 120grit AlOx from them for exactly the same purpose as you. Soda blasting or walnut shells would be the only thing I would use on aluminum and I would do a lot of research before I did anything. Works as stated, Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2022. Ill be buying for use in heating flasks in a heat bath with an electric hot plate and copper pot . We have a powder coating/ceramic coating business and buy our blasting media locally from a large stripper as they buy it in large quantities (like the truckload). Number 4 sandcomes in 100 pound bags. bucket and for PVC pipe along with a good shop vac will work. The HF cabinets are OK but you do have to make a few mods. You don't want to breathe in the stuff you are knocking off your parts, much less the blast media itself. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9464. $80 for a small 50 lb. Terms & Conditions Although I did have a little bit of a learning curve with this product, the tasks I am doing in my shop are made much easier! Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2022, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Be careful if you try regular sand like play sand from a lumber yard, the silca in the sand can mess up paint later on. You must log in or register to reply here. 20112022 Zoro Tools, Inc. All rights reserved Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019. HF carries blasting media? The drooler at home depot said it's special order, any other places to check? Try contacting your local stripper/blaster outfits. Tune it off and you lift the window off and remove the item your blasted. Again, for general cleaning, this is expensive stuff, but is definitely high quality, The sand works wonderfully with my sandblaster, Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019. I can only imaging how much an aluminum skin would move. MSC is more reasonably priced. Dry heat as hot as sand but no scratches in my precious glassware. Will be buying every month. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. I keep it in the large rubbermaid bins and as it breaks down I can mix new and old to get the abrasiveness I'm looking for. Tip: coarse is realllllly coarse, so go for the fine grit - which isn't so fine. You just change out the plastic sheet every couple of hours of blasting time. I always buy it at TSC, it's around $7 for a 50lb bag. TP Tools. It may not display this or other websites correctly. I think Harbor freight is kind of expensive for their media if I remember correctly? We used the sandblasting material with good results. They have several brands so look at all possibilities before buying. I think Harbor Freight sells 25# bags of walnut shells. For the plastic window I junked that and made a frame out of aluminum channel that will fit over 1/4 plywood but used plexiglass and siliconed it together. I knew I could depend on the hive mind! Many of the larger outfits sell alum oxide and other media. Where is a good place to buy some media blasting media? A dust trap that uses a 5 gal. For the soft touch on aluminum I use crushed glass or glass bead. You can find this stuff cheaper if you know where to look, Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2020, Actual polished glass bead blast media. Thanks guys! Ive got an industrial cabinet but the stuff ive been doing is too big (porsches and lexus subframes, etc.). Where to get soda or walnutshells? 2022 Motorsport Marketing. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. At least it is made in USA and I was able to choose the exact grit that I needed. Media blasting with something harder can cause the metal to move just like peening it with millions of tiny hammers. Our Tractor Supply carries glass beads I think. I use this product to add weight to reborn baby dolls. I then cover it with the shrink to fit plastic used to make temp. box that their website claimed was a 5 gallon bucket. You are using an out of date browser. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.
(Silica sand is hard on the lungs.). Made in USA quality. I do alot of powder coating and have always used alum oxide with no problems. I have seen walnut media at Northern Tool. Harbor Freight Black diamond for rusty steel here. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. http://www.eastwood.com/aluminum-oxide-blast-media-90-grit.html, http://www.harborfreight.com/44-lbs-black-aluminum-oxide-abrasive-70-grit-99945.html, http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT?PMPXNO=2697097&PMT4NO=90793645, http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/catalogPDF.shtml?CatPage=3306. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. I'm resto-modding a car that has an aluminum body (partially anyway) and want to media blast that, whats the best media and source for that? Not sure it's any worse then sand, but breathing protection is pretty much a must when sand blasting. Silica sand should not be used, this is a nearly white sand. ALWAYS wear a dust mask when blasting. All rights reserved. Edit: Let me expound on this since I'm on a real keyboard, rather than a phone. It is good quality, but the price per pound is a bit high. This page works best with JavaScript. The most common media is "Black Beauty" which I buy at my local Menards, glass beads which I usually get at Harbor Freight, and plain sand. I have two that I run in a commercial powder coat shop and they are worth the money. Only recently I realized I needed to be wearing a dust mask when using my big buffer, as well (doh!). I get it from my local building supply/lumber store (not Home Depot or Lowes). The glass beads are high quality and fine but not too small. Rusty painted steel gets Black Diamond. Shipping is lighting fast as always and they are much cheaper than the competitors. I just bought some this morning from Grainger. Its coal slag. rhGZgIsPhBM2MSRtsFa432FrL1Y2GUigTO4D8rVGB0x67RI1Wrc3C64IVVX3rMxr.
Aluminum oxide is also good but usually costs more then black beauty. JavaScript is disabled. This was a 57 Chevy trunk lid that was blasted and deformed. I found a 50#, 80 grit pail from Tractor Supply Co. for a few dollars more than I paid for this, though I will say this is a better quality glass than what is in the pail. I'd look into soda blasting for an aluminum body.
41-290, ZORO SELECT Blast Media, Aluminum Oxide, 180 Grit AOB180-50, ECONOLINE ABRASIVE PRODUCTS Econoline Aluminum Oxide 522046B-50. Tractor Supply also sells black beauty. Harbor freight list's it, Tractor Supply also carries it. I've never used black beauty, so I can't give a comparison. INTERACTIVIA #3 Glass Beads - 8 lb or 3.6 kg - Blasting Abrasive Media INTERACTIVIA #3 Glass Beads - 8 lb or 3.6 kg - Blasting Abrasive Media (Course), Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. The same may go for some of the other products as well. The soda is just baking soda as far as I know. Absolutely perfect for what I needed! Do they carry glass beads? It perfectly for that purpose or to make weighted blankets. so itll work gone on removing clear coat and paint off of wheels with no issues? There's a door on the side I use for larger items. The window is held in place by the vaccumn of the shop vac. So glad I purchased it. That way the plastic doesn't get "frosted". I also use it on steel if I want a smooth finish for painting as the harder media may leave the surface rough. It flowed well and did not plug our sandblasting gun. I usually pick mine up at Northern Tool. I like glass for use on aluminum or any metal other then steel or cast iron. Any ideas? I use some foam weather strip around the frame to seal the whole thing. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Blast Media, Glass Beads, Media Grit Not Rated, Nominal Dia. I used a 50 year old carpet vac for 10 years that worked great after I adapted a modern pleated paper filter in place of the simple paper bag. Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2019, Well packaged upon arrival! Range 0.0041 in to 0.0083 in, US Sieve 70-140, Standards OSHA, 20112022 Zoro Tools, Inc. All rights reserved, BALLOTINI Glass Beads Blast Media, Fine AE (100-170), BALLOTINI Blast Media, Glass Beads, Extra Coarse D (50-70), BALLOTINI Glass Beads Blast Media, Extra Fine AH (170-325), BALLOTINI Glass Beads Blast Media, Coarse AC (60-120), BALLOTINI Ground Glass Blast Media G3 (25-40), RAYTECH Nut-Based Media, Random, 5 Lbs. I go through about 2 tons of media every year in my shop. Black Beauty is a name they carry locally. Corvette Racing: Once an upstart, now a cornerstone of worldwide endurance racing, Remember, racing is supposed to be funand that time I met Willy T. Ribbs | Column.
I use glass beads from HF for just about everything. Local equipment rental places will have coal slag in various grits in 100lbs bags. Micron Range 106 to 212, 53 lb, Pail, Nominal Dia. storm windows. If you are looking for general cleaning media, you can find much better deals than this. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.
The motor finally died so now I my old shop vac. Also what is the general consensus on what to use on slightly rusty/ painted surfaces like suspension etc.? Where are yall buying your blasting cabinets? It's so small, I don't know if it will be enough to let the cabinet blast continously without me banging on it to knock more down into the hopper. McMaster, I've bought 120grit AlOx from them for exactly the same purpose as you. Soda blasting or walnut shells would be the only thing I would use on aluminum and I would do a lot of research before I did anything. Works as stated, Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2022. Ill be buying for use in heating flasks in a heat bath with an electric hot plate and copper pot . We have a powder coating/ceramic coating business and buy our blasting media locally from a large stripper as they buy it in large quantities (like the truckload). Number 4 sandcomes in 100 pound bags. bucket and for PVC pipe along with a good shop vac will work. The HF cabinets are OK but you do have to make a few mods. You don't want to breathe in the stuff you are knocking off your parts, much less the blast media itself. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9464. $80 for a small 50 lb. Terms & Conditions Although I did have a little bit of a learning curve with this product, the tasks I am doing in my shop are made much easier! Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2022, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Be careful if you try regular sand like play sand from a lumber yard, the silca in the sand can mess up paint later on. You must log in or register to reply here. 20112022 Zoro Tools, Inc. All rights reserved Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019. HF carries blasting media? The drooler at home depot said it's special order, any other places to check? Try contacting your local stripper/blaster outfits. Tune it off and you lift the window off and remove the item your blasted. Again, for general cleaning, this is expensive stuff, but is definitely high quality, The sand works wonderfully with my sandblaster, Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019. I can only imaging how much an aluminum skin would move. MSC is more reasonably priced. Dry heat as hot as sand but no scratches in my precious glassware. Will be buying every month. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. I keep it in the large rubbermaid bins and as it breaks down I can mix new and old to get the abrasiveness I'm looking for. Tip: coarse is realllllly coarse, so go for the fine grit - which isn't so fine. You just change out the plastic sheet every couple of hours of blasting time. I always buy it at TSC, it's around $7 for a 50lb bag. TP Tools. It may not display this or other websites correctly. I think Harbor freight is kind of expensive for their media if I remember correctly? We used the sandblasting material with good results. They have several brands so look at all possibilities before buying. I think Harbor Freight sells 25# bags of walnut shells. For the plastic window I junked that and made a frame out of aluminum channel that will fit over 1/4 plywood but used plexiglass and siliconed it together. I knew I could depend on the hive mind! Many of the larger outfits sell alum oxide and other media. Where is a good place to buy some media blasting media? A dust trap that uses a 5 gal. For the soft touch on aluminum I use crushed glass or glass bead. You can find this stuff cheaper if you know where to look, Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2020, Actual polished glass bead blast media. Thanks guys! Ive got an industrial cabinet but the stuff ive been doing is too big (porsches and lexus subframes, etc.). Where to get soda or walnutshells? 2022 Motorsport Marketing. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. At least it is made in USA and I was able to choose the exact grit that I needed. Media blasting with something harder can cause the metal to move just like peening it with millions of tiny hammers. Our Tractor Supply carries glass beads I think. I use this product to add weight to reborn baby dolls. I then cover it with the shrink to fit plastic used to make temp. box that their website claimed was a 5 gallon bucket. You are using an out of date browser. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.
(Silica sand is hard on the lungs.). Made in USA quality. I do alot of powder coating and have always used alum oxide with no problems. I have seen walnut media at Northern Tool. Harbor Freight Black diamond for rusty steel here. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. http://www.eastwood.com/aluminum-oxide-blast-media-90-grit.html, http://www.harborfreight.com/44-lbs-black-aluminum-oxide-abrasive-70-grit-99945.html, http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT?PMPXNO=2697097&PMT4NO=90793645, http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/catalogPDF.shtml?CatPage=3306. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. I'm resto-modding a car that has an aluminum body (partially anyway) and want to media blast that, whats the best media and source for that? Not sure it's any worse then sand, but breathing protection is pretty much a must when sand blasting. Silica sand should not be used, this is a nearly white sand. ALWAYS wear a dust mask when blasting. All rights reserved. Edit: Let me expound on this since I'm on a real keyboard, rather than a phone. It is good quality, but the price per pound is a bit high. This page works best with JavaScript. The most common media is "Black Beauty" which I buy at my local Menards, glass beads which I usually get at Harbor Freight, and plain sand. I have two that I run in a commercial powder coat shop and they are worth the money. Only recently I realized I needed to be wearing a dust mask when using my big buffer, as well (doh!). I get it from my local building supply/lumber store (not Home Depot or Lowes). The glass beads are high quality and fine but not too small. Rusty painted steel gets Black Diamond. Shipping is lighting fast as always and they are much cheaper than the competitors. I just bought some this morning from Grainger. Its coal slag. rhGZgIsPhBM2MSRtsFa432FrL1Y2GUigTO4D8rVGB0x67RI1Wrc3C64IVVX3rMxr.
Aluminum oxide is also good but usually costs more then black beauty. JavaScript is disabled. This was a 57 Chevy trunk lid that was blasted and deformed. I found a 50#, 80 grit pail from Tractor Supply Co. for a few dollars more than I paid for this, though I will say this is a better quality glass than what is in the pail. I'd look into soda blasting for an aluminum body.
41-290, ZORO SELECT Blast Media, Aluminum Oxide, 180 Grit AOB180-50, ECONOLINE ABRASIVE PRODUCTS Econoline Aluminum Oxide 522046B-50. Tractor Supply also sells black beauty. Harbor freight list's it, Tractor Supply also carries it. I've never used black beauty, so I can't give a comparison. INTERACTIVIA #3 Glass Beads - 8 lb or 3.6 kg - Blasting Abrasive Media INTERACTIVIA #3 Glass Beads - 8 lb or 3.6 kg - Blasting Abrasive Media (Course), Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. The same may go for some of the other products as well. The soda is just baking soda as far as I know. Absolutely perfect for what I needed! Do they carry glass beads? It perfectly for that purpose or to make weighted blankets. so itll work gone on removing clear coat and paint off of wheels with no issues? There's a door on the side I use for larger items. The window is held in place by the vaccumn of the shop vac. So glad I purchased it. That way the plastic doesn't get "frosted". I also use it on steel if I want a smooth finish for painting as the harder media may leave the surface rough. It flowed well and did not plug our sandblasting gun. I usually pick mine up at Northern Tool. I like glass for use on aluminum or any metal other then steel or cast iron. Any ideas? I use some foam weather strip around the frame to seal the whole thing. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Blast Media, Glass Beads, Media Grit Not Rated, Nominal Dia. I used a 50 year old carpet vac for 10 years that worked great after I adapted a modern pleated paper filter in place of the simple paper bag. Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2019, Well packaged upon arrival! Range 0.0041 in to 0.0083 in, US Sieve 70-140, Standards OSHA, 20112022 Zoro Tools, Inc. All rights reserved, BALLOTINI Glass Beads Blast Media, Fine AE (100-170), BALLOTINI Blast Media, Glass Beads, Extra Coarse D (50-70), BALLOTINI Glass Beads Blast Media, Extra Fine AH (170-325), BALLOTINI Glass Beads Blast Media, Coarse AC (60-120), BALLOTINI Ground Glass Blast Media G3 (25-40), RAYTECH Nut-Based Media, Random, 5 Lbs. I go through about 2 tons of media every year in my shop. Black Beauty is a name they carry locally. Corvette Racing: Once an upstart, now a cornerstone of worldwide endurance racing, Remember, racing is supposed to be funand that time I met Willy T. Ribbs | Column.
I use glass beads from HF for just about everything. Local equipment rental places will have coal slag in various grits in 100lbs bags. Micron Range 106 to 212, 53 lb, Pail, Nominal Dia. storm windows. If you are looking for general cleaning media, you can find much better deals than this. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.