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Is shot blasting the ideal way to clean steel surfaces?

In the metal and construction industry, the shot-blasting process in which cut wire abrasive media are thrown at the surface of hard materials to clean and make them ready is in great demand. The reason for the popularity of the shot blasting method is that it is not only cheaper but also allows you to clean a large surface area in a very short period. Shot blasting methods with different abrasives are used on different surfaces like steel, aluminum, iron, brass, concrete, and so on. This amazing surface cleaning process allows you to ready different metal surfaces for other pre-treatment activities like plating, electrifying, glass covering, electroplating, and rubber treating, and so on. Two important shot blasting techniques are used by the industry includes abrasive blasting as well as grit blasting. In the grit blasting process, the cleaning media is much softer like silicon carbide, alumina, and walnut shells, and so on. We mainly use such blasting abrasives to clean the non-metallic surfaces.

On the other hand, in the abrasive blasting process, we use stainless steel shots for cleaning hard surfaces like metal or concrete. We use this process to remove any unwanted material from the surface of the metal or concrete-like paint, rust, or any other matter. We use steel blasting because it offers us several advantages that other processes cannot match.

Why the shot blasting with steel shots is best for steel preparation

1). It allows us to select the size of the abrasive material (steel balls) depending upon what kind of finish we want and the material on which it has to be used.

2). The design of the nozzle of the shot blasting machine is such that it allows high precision cleaning which is excellent to clean those metal surfaces which is hard to reach through the manual method.

3). It is and highly effective cleaning process in which you can easily remove the top layer of the metal surface without leaving any residue.

4). This technique is very efficient as it allows you to clean very large surfaces in a very short time.

5). As you can select the abrasive material as well as the pressure at which they are thrown to the surface that needs cleaning, it allows you to clear away any scales without harming the virgin metal beneath it.

6). The shot blasting process allows you to remove any surface imperfections and make it a uniform layer and eliminate any concealed flaws.

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