Can you reuse soda blasting media?

What is BAKING SODA BLASTING?

In the past, the only way you could remove paint or other unsightly materials from a contaminated surface was to chip it off, sand it, use harsh chemicals or sandblast it.  Now there is BAKING SODA BLASTING!  Soda Blasting is a process that can spline almost any surface in an efficient and safe.  Although it is similar to traditional sandblasting, it has the advantage of cleaning the surface without causing harm to the material or the environment. Soda Blasting easily removes paint, coatings, carbon, grease, oils, gasket material and corrosion on the surface from the metals, alloys, plastics, and composites.  

Soda blasting is the latest, technology to safely remove paint and clean nearly any surface.  The Soda Blasting machine uses a high compressed air to deliver bicarbonate of soda-blasting media onto the surface to be cleaned. The baking soda is a crystalized mercantile grade form. we use fully pure baking soda with no flow additives which could contaminate the surface and cause paint failure. Similar in concept to sandblasting, Baking Soda Blasting is much kinder and better to the underlying surface and the environment.

For reuse soda blasting media:-

• Never use soft soda blasting media inside any blasting cabinet built to recycle abrasives. Soft soda blasting media reach maximum impact velocity at a low blasting pressure, explode, and turn into dust upon impact with almost any part material. Soft abrasives, such as Slag, Sand and Garnett, quickly overload and plug the dust collector regardless of the size of the dust collector. Even small, low-cost siphon blasting cabinets will delivery five pounds of abrasive per minute resulting in 300 pounds of dust being created per hour.  Additionally, the dust may weigh 100 pounds per cubic foot, requiring lots of dust storage to accommodate 300 pounds of dust.

• Know the abrasive hardness before you purchase. Normally the harder the abrasive the longer it lasts, but if the abrasive is too hard it must be used against softer parts or it will also quickly shatter into small particles. Silicon Carbide is the hardest abrasive commonly used, but it wears out quickly when used against hard titanium or any super metals.

• If you are using a blasting cabinet without a separator reclaimer you will quickly contaminate the recycled abrasive with the dust and spent particles. When this happens, the good abrasive becomes over-contaminated with the dust and spent abrasive to the point that everything has to be discarded, good and bad. Combining a cabinet without an inefficient separator reclaimer and cleaning a dirty part can really shorten the recycle rate of any abrasive to a maximum of two or three uses.

• Using any abrasive past its recycle rate will slow down part processing just like using dull sandpaper slows down sanding time. It’s good to think of abrasive as similar to oil in a car because all types of abrasive must be changed and replaced eventually, don’t mistakenly assume that just because it’s still there it’s still good.

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