Always Prefer Quality over Price When Selecting the Right Steel Shot

In many industries, steel abrasives, steel shots and steel grits are widely used to clean the surface of metal sheet, rubber, or any other material in a fast and cost-effective manner. Most of the time materials like copper cut wire shots, or aluminium cut wire shots are used for either cleaning or physical modification of a surface. At the same time conditioned carbon steel cut wire shots are used as a preparatory process for metal surface cleaning. In such metal surfaces scales, dirt, paint coatings or rust are cleared off. Additionally, the steel shots are also used for physically modifying the metal surface (like roughening it up) so that better application of paint and coating can take place on it. This shows how important steel shots are in many industrial processes. However, many manufacturing companies when trying to source steel shots from the market look for the cheapest option available. This is done to minimise the cost. However, this can have a big impact on the overall work quality of your products and is expensive eventually.

In this article, we will share with you some of the disadvantages of using cheaper steel shots in your manufacturing processes.

1). Cheaper steel shots have uneven surfaces which give very inferior finish when you use it to clean the surfaces of metal paint, rust, or grit.

2). Inferior steel shots have a low fatigue value which means that at high pressure and temperature, it gets deformed easily, thereby decreasing the efficiency of your blasting process significantly.

3). Inferior steel shots which you buy to save some money can be is used for a limited time only. You have to frequently change the steel shots which increases the input costs significantly. On the other hand, if you buy high-quality steel shots, then it can be used repeatedly for many a time thereby reducing the operational cost eventually.

Conclusion: The above reason shows why it is important to look at the quality and not price when you are selecting steel shots for the blasting process.