Sandblasting Services by Vibra Finish Limited Offer Many Advantages in Surface Finishing

Vibra Finish Limited offers sandblasting as one of its many finishing options.

Vibra Finish Limited has provided world-class metal finishing services for half a century and counting. The company has mastered all kinds of finishing methods, such as burnishing, surface enhancement, deburring, rust removal, and vibratory finishing. This portfolio of services also includes sandblasting.

This is a process for cleaning or finishing surfaces with a nozzle that shoots out pressurized abrasive materials at a high speed. The sandblasting method comes with several distinct advantages over other methods.

Effectiveness, economy, and versatility

Vibra Finish Limited identifies three main benefits of using sandblasting in finishing applications:

• Effectiveness. This method is renowned for its ability to clean dirt and debris effectively, as well as removing rust, paint, and corrosion from metal surfaces to produce the smoothest finish. To maximize efficiency, users should replace the entire load in the machine when the abrasive has broken down too much. They should also avoid adding new material to old loads, as that diminishes the performance of abrasive significantly and raises the level of dust.
• Economy. Sandblasting is conducted before finishing to replace sanding, and wire brushing; as it cleans the surface mechanically, no other cleaning is usually required – thus saving a lot of time. The technique is as much as 90 per cent quicker than hand cleaning. In addition, abrasives for blasting are relatively inexpensive and reusable, and the technique offers high productivity per hour.
• Versatility. Sandblasting can achieve many different types of surfaces, with the final effect depending on such factors as the hardness of the abrasive, its particle size, the pressure of the abrasive stream, the angle of the abrasive gun and its distance away from the method of application and the workflow. Depending on the desired result, users can apply a wide range of abrasives, including aluminum oxide, plastic abrasives, silicon carbide, corn-cob, glass beads, steel shot and steel grit. Abrasive grits, for example, leave a dull satin finish and are compatible with more aggressive applications, while glass beads texturize, descale, or remove light burrs and die-cast flash for a smooth, bright satin finish.

For more information, contact Vibra Finish Limited.

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