Metal Finishing Blast Medias
Rodeco supplies a high-quality selection of blast media to suit a variety of blasting needs. Let our experts help you find the type and size blast media that’s best for your unique application. From steel shot to glass… plastic to cut wire… we have what you need for every type of surface preparation.
Multiblast Medias
Zirgrit
Bulk Density - 140 lb/cu ft
Sizes - 24 grit - 220 grit
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Main Applications
- • Surface Cleaning & Difficult Deburring
- • Descaling
- • Deburring
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• Surface Profiling prior to
Coating
Benefits
- • Applicable to all air blast wet/dry
- • Lowest consumption
- • High abrasiveness
- • No iron
- • Very low Dust
- • Last 6X Aluminum Oxide
- • Reuse higher than Garnet, Aluminum Oxide, and Silicon Carbide
ZirGrit NZ
- • High Density Media
- • Higher Recycle Rate with Wet Blast
- • Sharp and Angular
- • Low Iron Content
Spartan Abrasive
Spartan Abrasive/SpartanBlast
- • Increased Productivity and Reduced Consumption
- • Faster and Last Longer than Heavier Medias
- • Increased Cost Savings
- • Reduction in Waste/Lower Dust
- • 0% FREE Silica
Main Applications
- • Shipbuilding/Repair
- • Industrial Painting
- • Powder Coating
- • Air Blast/Pressure Blast/Suction Blast
- • Vapor Blast/Wet Blast
- • Heavy Equipment Repair
- • Industrial Tanks
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Zirglass
Cost effective ceramic beads with high efficiency for use in air pressure blast rooms and cabinets
- • White color and smooth surface
- • Durable ceramic media
- • Chemically inert
- • Low level of dust emissions
- • High recyclability
Main Applications
- • Stainless steel
- • Aluminium and non-ferrous
- • Cleaning
- • Derusting, descaling
- • Deburring
- • Surface preparation
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Steel Shot / Grit
Brown Aluminum Oxide
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White Aluminum Oxide
White aluminum oxide boasts an extremely high purity that makes it suitable for applications requiring minimum contamination of foreign substances and sharp free cutting abrasive characteristics. It is available in a wide range of grit sizes.
Common Applications
- • Medical
- • Dental
- • Turbine Blade
- • Non-skid coating / Flooring
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Glass Bead
Glass bead media is a classic in the blasting industry. Rodeco supplies a high-quality selection of glass beads to suit various blasting needs. Glass beads are manufactured from high-grade glass, contain no free silica, and are made into preformed spherical shapes. They produce a much smoother and brighter satin finish and are extremely hard, chemically inert, and environmentally friendly. It is a popular abrasive in both wet and dry blasting. Glass beads are primarily used in blasting cabinets for honing, polishing, peening, blending, finishing, removing light burrs, and cleaning more light foreign matter.
- No change in geometry and material characteristics
- No diameter reduction (no wear)
- No peeling layer by layer
- Breakage in small parts, easily removed from working mix by the separation system
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Black Silicon Carbide
Features: Extreme hardness and uniformity of shape, maximum resistance to breakdown, consistent, high-quality grains and versatility - offered in a wide range of grit sizes
- • Faster cutting and surface smoothing, shorter work cycles, increased production
- • Longer cutting life, increased cost-effectiveness, less dust and less clean-up
- • Predictable, repeatable results
- • Ideal for a variety of applications including grinding, lapping, polishing, and blasting
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Plastic Media
Rodeco offers an assortment of Plastic Media to meet a variety of needs:
- • POLYEXTRA® - Type I: Custom designed for use in soft abrasive finishing deflashing operations when maintenance of surface tolerance is of the utmost concern and the integrity of the substrate cannot be compromised.
- • POLYPLUS® - Type II: This media is more aggressive than POLYEXTRA® and POLY V® and is applicable for a great variety of light industrial cleaning requirements. It can reduce, if not totally eliminate, chemical consumption.
- • POLYHARD® - Type III: This media is the most aggressive formulation of POLYMEDIA®. It is fast acting and not harmful to blast cleaning equipment or cabinetry. This media offers a fast, cost-effective alternative to other removal methods.
- • POLY V® - Type IV: This media is designed to solve today’s coating removal and surface preparation problems. It provides rapid coating removal, minimal substrate abrasion, and high reusability. It is specifically designed to remove coatings from most sheet aluminum, fiberglass, and composite surfaces as well as to deburr plastics, ceramics, and soft metals.
Ceramic Beads
Ceramic Blasting media often lasts ten to twelve times longer then other abrasives. Because it lasts so long and does not break down, it is extremely cost effectuve when waste and disposal costs are included. If a contaminate has to be removed, ceramic media is the answer.
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Garnet And Waterjet Garnet
Garnet abrasive is fast cutting and recyclable up to 5 times. Because of its speed, the ROI on a project can be improved by reducing the labor time. With four different types and multiple sizes, we can recommend the exact right garnet for your application.
- • Waterjet
- • Wetblasting
- • Coating removals and surface prep
- • Contracting/ mobile applications
- • Recovery systems
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Stainless Steel / Amacast
Stainless steel shot, while more expensive per pound, easily justifies the cost by lasting 3 to 4 times longer and eliminates any risk of iron impregnation. AMACAST can significantly reduce your raw materials and disposal costs. Whether you require a bright, metallic finish, free from staining and ferrous residue, or a specific surface profile to prepare for coating, AMACAST is the answer.
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Stainless Steel Cut Wire
Benefits
- • Produces very bright surfaces
- • Longer life than cast abrasives
- • No hollow, splits, or twins
- • Maintains size and shape longer than cast abrasives
- • Produces dust free surfaces
- • Available “as cut” or “conditioned”
- • No scale contamination
- • Creates less dust than cast products
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Zinc Cut Wire
Zinc cut wire is the abrasive of choice when damage and ferrous contamination from conventional steel abrasives are of concern. Zinc cut wire is made from 99%+ high-grade zinc wire. It is an ideal product for cleaning fixtures or stripping paint hooks. Zinc cut wire is a soft, non-ferrous abrasive that is capable of removing various coatings, removing flash from aluminum and magnesium die castings, or simply producing a bright, uniform finish on any metal.
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Contractor Medias
Garnet
Garnet abrasive is fast cutting and recyclable up to 5 times. Because of its speed, the ROI on a project can be improved by reducing the labor time. With four different types and multiple sizes, we can recommend the exact right garnet for your application.
- • Waterjet
- • Wetblasting
- • Coating removals and surface prep
- • Contracting/ mobile applications
- • Recovery systems
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Crushed Glass
Crushed Glass is made from 100% crushed post-consumer recycled glass. It is lighter in weight, it has the hardness of glass bead, and its sharp, angular grains produce a very clean bright finish. Crushed glass is environmentally responsible since it is inert and contains no heavy metals or crystalline silica. It is especially suited for preparing a variety of surfaces for painting. It is unique in its ability to economically clean aluminum, brass, copper, and stainless steel. It is excellent for use on steel, concrete, fiberglass, wood, and stone surfaces.
- • #3 20 to 40 mesh
- • #4 40 to 80 mesh
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Black Beauty
Harsco is the largest U.S. manufacturer of coal slag abrasives for the surface preparation market. Our BLACK BEAUTY®; abrasives are the original, low dusting, low free silica coal slag blasting abrasives. They lead the industry for quality, value, and performance.
Grades
MEDIUM
Used for general purpose repair and maintenance blasting including removal of paint, rust, mill scale, and other coatings from surfaces. Minimum suggested nozzle size of 1/4″ and under-standard blasting conditions will achieve a 3.0-4.8 Mil profile.
FINE
Utilized for new construction, light paint and rust removal and special maintenance applications requiring reduced profiles. Minimum suggested nozzle size of 3/16” and under standard blasting conditions will achieve a 2.0-3.5 Mil profile.
EXTRA FINE
Applicable for light blasting requiring a clean surface and minimum anchor profile including brush-off blast or high-pressure water blast systems. Minimum suggested nozzle size of 1/8” and under-standard blasting conditions will achieve a 1.0-2.6 Mil profile.
Jet Mag
Made of synthetic olivine, JETMAG is a low cost, high performing option for blast cleaning. Mostly used in dry applications as a low cost alternative to Garnet and a less toxic replacement for slag products. They have developed an effective wetblast formula as well.
- • It contains less than 1 % of free silica.
- • It holds no heavy metals and no toxic elements.
- • It can be recycled and re-used 3 - 4 times.
- • It is not listed as dangerous waste when needing to be disposed.
- • Its weak density (specific weight) means a higher quantity of material (volume) for a given weight.
Jetmag® Profile and Main Usages
- • 16 - 60 | 4 to 6 | Hard rust, deep cavities, boats and bridges, painted and rust steel, premetallization, concrete
- • 30 - 60 | 2.5 to 4 | New steel, structural steel, industrial equipment, heavy weight equipment and vehicles
- • 32-B4 | 2 to 3 | New and painted steel, light rust, truck wheels
- • 35 - 70 | 1.5 to 2.5 | Cars (body shop), light cavities, new steel, stainless steel
- • 60-B2 | 0.5 to 1.0 | Stainless steel, fiberglass, aluminium, wood
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Ebony Grit – Copper Slag
Ebony Grit is a high density blasting slag made from a by-product of copper production. The hardness and high density of Ebony Grit give it a high resistance to fracture with very low dust formation during blasting, as well as faster blast-cleaning speed when compared to local slag abrasives. This abrasive is commonly used for restoration of heavily painted steel bridges, ships and water towers
- • Reduces slag consumption rate
- • Increases blasting productivity rate
- • Very high cleaning speed
- • Very low dust level
- • Lower abrasive consumption
- • Crystalline silica levels are less than 1%
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Baking Soda / Armex
Soda Blasting is using baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, to blast for removal of dust, foil, paint, and to clean delicate substrates. These substrates are often limestone walls, rotating parts with bearings, fiberglass, arilox printing rolls, etc.
- • Soda is non-toxic and non-hazardous, with a nearly benlgn pH of.8.2.
- • Soda is water-soluble and can be thoroughly rinsed from surfaces.
- • Soda leaves no hard "grit" that can damage moving parts
- • Inquire about our various formulas to understand which one will suit your application best
Corncob
Corncob grit is the most accurately-screened and air-washed media in the marketplace. It has been the highest-quality media and the best in its class for over 50 years.
- • As an Abrasive: it cleans, polishes, and dries
- • It's Absorbent: holding up to four times its weight in fluid
- • Non-Toxic
- • Inert
- • Biodegradable
Holdtight® 102
This wet blasting additive prevents flash rusting of iron and steel surfaces and of dry blasted surfaces in a pressurized wash down. Holdtight 102 is designed to exceed marine, offshore, industrial, and infrastructure application standards. No rust. No salt. One step.
- • Removes all salts and contaminants
- • Prevents flash rust for up to 72 hours
- • Leaves no residue
- • Extends the life of coatings
Not Sure Which Metal Finishing Blast Medias You Need? Talk To The Experts At Rodeco.
Rodeco’s team can help you find the blast medias you need. If you’re not sure, schedule a demo with Kevin in Field Services or call us today at 
800-849-0871.
