Vibra Finish cleans metal surfaces better with sandblasting, shot blasting

Sandblasting is one of many great services from Vibra Finish.

With nearly five decades’ worth of experience in production finishing, as well as manufacturing its own finishing machinery, Vibra Finish is versatile in its services for industrial clients. Alongside deburring, burnishing, descaling, and derusting, the company also counts sandblasting and shot blasting among its solutions for optimizing metal surfaces.

Why choose sandblasting?

Sandblasting is a method of cleaning metal with a special tool that shoots away pressurized sand and other abrasive materials embedded in the surface. This process can remove all dirt, debris, rust, paint, and corrosion, resulting in the smoothest surface possible. A common substitute for sanding, wire brushing, and pickling, sandblasting is typically applied to a metal surface before the finish.

Because sandblasting cleans a surface both mechanically and chemically, no other cleaning process is required. This saves the worker a significant amount of time. Sandblasting is as much as 75 per cent faster than typical hand cleaning. Additionally, this method saves money, since the abrasives in the sandblasting tools are reusable – and not too costly to replace when they break down. Thus sandblasting is a more efficient and cost-effective process than other cleaning processes are.

Another advantage of sandblasting is the variety of finishing options that it enables. Depending on the desired outcome, the sandblasting tool can use different types of abrasives, like aluminum oxide, plastic, corn cob grit, glass beads, or silicon carbide. Other abrasive factors that can be adjusted to affect the finish include its hardness, particle size, stream speed, spray angle, and distance from the surface.

What is shot blasting?

Not unlike sandblasting, shot blasting is a process of cleaning, polishing and strengthening metal. But shot blasting is required to prepare metal for the application of surface coats, like paint, plating, or overlays. This method is popular in the automotive sector, in which workers use shot blasting to restore old vehicle parts and prepare new parts; it is also found in other sectors that deal with metal products frequently.

For top-notch cleaning and polishing of metal equipment and parts, trust the sandblasting and shot-blasting talents of Vibra Finish.

For more information, contact Vibra Finish.

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