Sandblast equipment

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Sandblasting has been first time used quite many decades ago and has not evolved into quite big branch of industry. Now we use different sandblast equipment for a lot more then just stripping off the paint and other dirt from surface. Lately one type of equipment and machine just does not cope up with our needs and desires any more.

This is why eventually sandblasting as a whole moved into different branches if we may say that. Now we use specific equipment and media for blasting. This is how shot blasting begin. Shot blasting requires specific shot blasting equipment, different shot blasting machine which is quite similar to sandblasting machine. There are still few items that are same as sandblast equipment, nozzle, hoses and gun can be used the same. Shot blasting machine is used explicitly for shot blasting but since it can used in many different ways and for blasting different things eventually they made more than one type of shot blasting machine. There are specific shot blasting machine which are made for blasting only one type of product, for example, machine for pipes, for extruded profiles made out of aluminum, shot blasting machine for rod, bar and wire and many others.

Basically we can say that shot blasting is starting to divide itself in similar way than original sandblasting began to. If company is blasting a lot of same items and are doing it for more years then they rather make new machine designed specifically for that product because the whole process can be done faster and better this way.

One of very important parts of sandblast equipment are gun and nozzles.

Gun is the part of sandblast equipment that defines which type of sandblasting you want to do. You can select from many different sandblasting gun, each of them is made for different specific job. Keep in mind that you will have to replace gun from time to time, depends how often its being used and how do you use it.

And nozzle is even more important part. It gets weared most so you really must be carefull when buying or replacing this type of sandblast equipment. It must fit to current gun you have and must be from quality and hard metal so it can lasts longer. And it’s nozzle that will be the defining part for how big area you can sandblast in one go and how precise sandblasting is. It is advised to have more then one different nozzle with you at any given time when you are sandblasting anything. You never know when changing nozzle will make your job a lot easier and smoother.

Sandblaster is a machine which we use for sandblasting. But sandblaster alone is not enough to get the job done.

We need some other sandblast equipment for work, like sandblasting nozzles, sandblasting gun, hoses and media.

Each equipment has a lot of variaties so we can choose exactly the one which is best for our work.

It starts with sandblaster alone, the bigger they are the harder they are to move, but on other hand bigger can be used for longer period of time and can cope with higher pressure.

Sandblasting supplies are same as sandblaster, market offers wide spectrum of options to choose from.

Sandblasting nozzles and gun are similar. Smaller are being used with sandblast equipment for precise blasting and for higher airflow pressure while bigger are being usef for cleaning larger surface and for lower airflow.

Sandblasting media is no different. Smaller grain is used for stripping layers of paint or rust from surface while bigger grains are normally used at sandblast equipment for abrasive and more for cleaning than actualy stripping of paint.