Glass bead blasting abrasive | Glass Bead Blasting Media | glass blasting beads
Glass beads blasting are an efficient and environmentally friendly abrasive for cleaning surfaces, capable of removing imperfections from stainless steel and components without causing any damage.
Glass bead blasting media are highly cost-effective when used for sandblasting, as Glass bead blasting abrasive can be repeatedly recycled, reducing your operational expenses while achieving smooth, brighter, or matte surfaces.
Whether you need surface cleaning, rust removal, corrosion treatment, or deburring for your products, our glass beads are your best choice. We offer a variety of sizes to suit your needs.
What is glass bead abrasive used for?
Application of Glass bead blasting abrasive
Mold cleaning |
Cosmetic and satin finishing |
Automotive restoration |
Carbon or heat treat scale removal |
Remove burrs from metal components |
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Advantages of glass bead blasting:
- Glass bead blasting is primarily used to remove surface burrs. During the process, the material itself remains unaffected, ensuring high precision.
- Glass bead blasting abrasive facilitates quick and thorough cleaning. Glass bead blasting effectively cleans the surfaces of stainless steel and various components, resulting in smoother finishes.
- Glass bead blasting is relatively gentle. It doesn’t leave any marks or abrasions on softer jewelry surfaces. This means it can achieve smoother, more pristine surfaces without damaging delicate finishes.
- Glass blasting beads are both economical and environmentally friendly abrasives for surface treatment. They have a slow consumption rate since they can be reused multiple times, significantly reducing surface treatment costs.
- With glass as the primary material, glass blasting beads also offers good reflectivity. It can remove paint residues and be used for line marking in parking lots, providing reflective properties.
- Our medium glass bead blasting abrasive are chemically inert, leaving no residue on the surface.
Size of glass bead for blasting
20-30, 30-40, 40-60, 50-70, 50-80, 60-120, 70-140, 100-170, 120-270, 170-325, 25-45, 40-70
Model of Bead blasting glass | Sieve Size (mesh) | Particle Size Range(μm) |
WSL17L# | 20~40 | 425 ~ 850 |
WSL 18L# | 30~40 | 425 ~ 600 |
WSL 19L# | 40~60 | 300 ~ 425 |
WSL 20L# | 60~100 | 150 ~ 300 |
WSL 21L# | 70~140 | 106 ~ 212 |
WSL 22L# | 100~140 | 106 ~ 150 |
WSL 23L# | 100~200 | 75 ~ 150 |
WSL 24L# | 140~200 | 75 ~ 106 |
WSL 25L# | 140~270 | 53 ~ 106 |
WSL 26L# | 200~325 | 45 ~ 75 |
We have a large inventory of glass bead blasting abrasives available, ensuring prompt shipment arrangements.
Glass bead for blasting can clean metal surfaces, such as stainless steel, without causing any adverse effects, indicating their high precision. Typically, they are used in tasks like polishing automotive repairs, removing minor burrs from precision parts, and sandblasting cabinets.
After treatment, they leave behind polished, smooth, or matte surface finishes.
For optimal sandblasting results, we recommend operating glass beads at a pressure of 60-90 PSI. The low dust levels enhance visibility for operators, significantly improving work efficiency during surface treatment.
The role of glass beads varies depending on their size in sandblasting operations.
For casting automotive components or removing edges from castings or gears, we suggest using large glass beads. Finer, smaller-sized beads are suitable for more delicate tasks, allowing for precise detail requirements.
Medium-sized glass beads blasting are better suited for mixed surface treatments and addressing defects, providing a matte finish.
Specification of glass bead blasting media
Shape: | Round, spherical |
Mohs hardness: | 5-6 |
Weight: | 50 pounds |
Compressive strength: | 36,000 psi |
Free silica: | 0 |
Specific gravity | 2.45-2.5 |
Density | 2.5g/cc |
Military specifications or military specifications and sizes are also available Bulk density approximately 100 pounds per cubic foot | medium glass bead blasting abrasive |
Specific gravity | 2.4-2.6 g/m3 |
Stacking density | 1.5g/cm3 |
Type | Blasting / Shot Peening Media |
Spherical | |
Rockwell hardness: | 46HRC |
Mohs | 6-7 |
Round rate | 80% |
Melting point | 710-730 ℃ |
Index of refraction | 1.5—1.6 |
Glass bead blasting abrasives can not only remove burrs but also clean surfaces while shot peening machined parts made of metal.
Compared to traditional blasting abrasives, glass beads offer not only surface smoothness and aesthetics but also provide a bright satin finish.
We provide glass beads in different size ranges to meet your various surface treatment requirements.
Our glass beads for blasting themselves have good chemical inertness, leaving no pollution or residues on the surface of the treated products.
While both sandblasting and glass bead blasting are used to remove surface burrs from components, treat surfaces, and remove contaminants, they operate similarly and are relatively straightforward.
Glass bead blasting uses tiny glass beads to remove surface burrs from components and clean them, making the appearance more aesthetically pleasing and tidy.
Glass beads for blasting are made of calcium glass. Bead blasting glass polishes the surfaces of stainless steel or other metal products, making them smoother. Glass bead blasting can also remove surface scratches, rust, or corrosion stains.
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glass beads for bead blasting | Glass bead blasting abrasive
For achieving better surface treatment results and improved smoothness, we recommend using glass bead blast media. We offer glass beads in various sizes for blasting, serving as an abrasive blasting medium.
With its semi-transparent dust, glass beads for bead blasting significantly enhances visibility during production, thus increasing output.
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