In soda blasting media process, size of the particles matters a lot. It should be the size of the sodium bicarbonate crystal that makes up the media and manufactured in a process to get consistent crystal size results. Larger particles don’t cause dust and work efficiently. Usually Natrium 260 is considered to be the ideal size for soda blasting media. Small size crystals don’t do as much work as do larger crystals and they only put excessive load on the equipment without significant results.

In spite of a pure and proper soda blasting media system, other manufacturers add scrap into the soda that spoils the purity of the process. Sodium bicarbonate is water-soluble. You can draw and wash it but typical calcium carbonate, are not water soluble. To remove their traces need more time and work. It only creates more dust and mess for you to clean up and waste your time. Moreover, other soda Blasting media systems cannot provide air that is sufficiently dry. If you put one of blaster vessels to their air supply, the moisture in the air will create clusters and clog in the soda. It is proved with research that not every soda is same. Only quality soda blasting media should be recommended and sold.

Sand blasting equipment consists of many different items. It depends upon the need that what you want to find in market. Nozzle is an important and major part of sand blasting equipment and there are different kinds and designs of nozzle available now. Small nozzles are used for fine work and higher pressured nozzles are used to strip paint on large surface. Keeping this mind, the sandblasting nozzle should be made of quality materials. Mostly a sandblasting nozzle is prepared from ceramic, which is a solid compound. These nozzles can work with airflow because of its smaller outer diameter and are used in fine work. Nozzles with a broad diameter to cope up with a higher airflow must be sustainable and made of a hard compound.

The sandblasting nozzles are of basically two types. One is the small size and other are of the large size. The small size sandblasting nozzles are use to make the surfaces fine and the high pressure that is exerted from them is to make the surfaces fine and smooth. The surfaces that have dirt on them are cleaned and than smoothed with the help of these nozzles. If these nozzles are not there than you will not be able to so this job at all. The small nozzles are used for the cleaning and smoothing purposes only. If you will use the large nozzles for this purpose, you will be creating a disaster only. The sandblasting nozzles are used for the fine purposes only and these sandblasting nozzles must be used for those purposes only for which they are designed for. The best small sandblasting nozzles must be made of ceramic to get the best result of it. You have to make sure that you are using the best quality nozzles for the best results and the ceramic nozzles dos a great job. They are they most widely used with perfection and creates no mess around.

The large sandblasting nozzles are use to apply the paint on the surfaces. The paint that smoothes on a surface is done by the sandblasting nozzles only. The large nozzles are used to apply the paint on the surfaces and if the surfaces are done by the great blasting process than the paint that smoothes on those surfaces is really very great and these nozzles are helpful to apply the best quality paints. If the nozzles are of good quality, you need to check this out too that you are using the good paints too. Both when are of good quality than you will get the best results. The ceramic nozzles are the best to use and these ceramic nozzles are the most best for all kinds of use. The ceramic ones are the most demanded these days.

But do keep in mind. If we use narrow sand blasting nozzle the pressure inside of it is a lot higher and the nozzle needs to be replace a lot more often. With smaller nozzles we can on the other hand reach all areas of the surface and we can be a lot more precise with sandblasting. But no matter which gun or sand blasting nozzle we use, those two parts will be replaced most often.

When we decide to replace or buy new sand blasting equipment we must be careful to buy quality items. Quality sand blasting equipment  might be a bit more expensive but the quality is what we want. Better products will last a lot longer then their cheaper counterparts, work with quality sandblasting nozzle is faster, easier and a lot more precise then work with cheap guns.

When it comes to quality sand blasting equipment you must not be cheap and only buy products that have high quality, in the end you will be more then happy for the decision.

Shot peening is a special process of blasting that bombards a metallic surface with round abrasive in order to compress the surface. Compression makes the metal surface stronger and because of this the lifespan of such metal piece is longer. Sandblasting makes the wear of nozzles, so nozzle has to be made of quality material, like boron carbide. With shot peening nozzle directs the parts of abrasive material in wanted direction, so it is very important if you want to achieve the best results with sandblaster machine.

Shot peening is being widely used for many mechanic parts because it makes them a lot stronger. Parts that are modified by shot peening last a lot longer and can be used in conjuction with other parts which are under high physical pressure.

Nozzle is one part of sandblating equipment that will, no matter what you do,  get replaced most often. But that does not happen because they are poorly made, the reason for it is, that nozzle is being weared most. All that media being blaster through it with high airflow does start to have effects even on most hard alloys known to men.

That is why nozzles are being primarly made from 2 compounds. Cheaper nozzles are made from ceramic compound. They wear a bit faster than more quality ones, but they do get the job done also. They are primarly designed for usage with lower pressure so they can get live a bit longer. Top quality nozzles on other hard, are made from tungsten carbide which is incredibly hard wearing metal. Tungsten carbide sandblasting nozzle is made to cope up with very high pressure and still don’t wear to much.

And one more thing about nozzle. Make sure, when you replace existing one, to install compatible air jet with it since these two parts work in conjuction. Also make sure you buy proper air jet for the nozzle and vice versa, depending which part you buy first.