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Wet Blasting – Overview and Applications

Wet blasting uses water and abrasive medium accelerated from a nozzle with compressed air. The water buffers and lubricates the particles on impact which allows for very fine finishes to be produced without damage to the component. In addition, biodegradable … Continue reading

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New Blast Room Added To Facility

Recently Precision Finishing Inc. has added a 10’ wide x 20’ long and 10’ high blast room to their ISO 9000 compliant blasting facility. Precision Finishing Inc. is recognized for their quality blasting of industrial parts and this room now … Continue reading

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Why Is Chemistry Necessary In Vibratory Finishing?

The first step of the chemistry process is that you look at the type of metal that the parts are composed of. This leads to determining what will happen in the vibratory process. A main question to ask is “what … Continue reading

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Accelerated Finishing In The Racing Industry

Chemtrol is used for chemically accelerated surface finishing (ASF) in a vibratory machine. The process creates a soft film on the surface of the part whereby non-abrasive media wipes the surface clean to re-expose the surface to the chemistry again. … Continue reading

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Flocculation treatment of vibratory water

Flocculation is a waste water treatment process that uses a clay polymer to coagulate the solids in the vibratory waste water stream.  This coagulation generates larger particles of the contaminants and metals which then can be filtered out of the … Continue reading

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What is Wheel Blasting?

Wheel Blasting is an airless blast operation that uses a wheel with centrifugal force to propel the abrasive against the parts. Because the wheel spins at 3600 RPM, it is a high velocity, high efficiency blasting operation with typically quick … Continue reading

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What Is Reclaim And Why Is It Useful?

What is a reclaimer? Simply stated a media reclaimer is a unit or system designed to automatically separate dust and debris from good, reusable blast media. Why is reclaim useful? A reclaim system will greatly improve productivity. A properly adjusted … Continue reading

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What Is Ball Burnishing?

A bright, highly reflective surface can be achieved in a vibratory process commonly referred to as ball burnishing.   This specialized process combines the weight and brightness of steel media with compounds designed to produce a specific color and luster in … Continue reading

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Alternatives To Using Black Beauty

A job shop that also has blasting capabilities had been using Black Beauty in one of their blast rooms. Black Beauty is a waste by-product from burning coal, commonly referred to as “coal slag”. The Black Beauty was breaking up … Continue reading

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The Benefits Of Sample Processing

A metals fabricator recently purchased a vibratory bowl from Precision Finishing so that they can tumble parts in-house. This was a new process for them, and they realized that they lacked the expertise to run this efficiently.       Precision Finishing … Continue reading

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