Different material surfaces on which shot blasting can or cannot be used.
Shotblasting
This popular technique is commonly used to clean, prime, or smoothen the surface of materials. You will find wide applications of shot blasting in factories and paint shops. In this process, the shot blasting machines blast thousands of stainless steel round cut wire shots or other abrasive shots on the metal surfaces to remove rusts, paints, and grease. It is also used to prime the surface of a material for further processing. This process should always be used only on hard surfaces like metals. If you use it on softer surfaces, then chances are that the material might be damaged. In this article, we will share with you the list of materials on which shot blasting can be used and on which surfaces it could be damaging.
The surfaces that are ideal for using shot blasting
Metal
Metals surfaces are ideally cleaned through the shot blasting techniques. As the metal sheets are very hard, it is easy to remove the top layer by bombarding it with cut wire abrasive or some other material without damaging the material to get the desired result. You will find workers removing rusts, old paints, and grease through this process
Concrete
You will also find workers cleaning the concrete surface through this process especially the floors of factories or warehouses. As concrete is extremely hard, you can use the shot blasting process safely to either clean the surface or even change the composition of the floor.
The materials on which shot blasting should not be used
Wood
The wood may look and feel hard to touch but if you try to clean it through the shot blasting process, then you will completely ruin the surface. Cut wire shots are extremely hard and blasting it on a wooden surface is not a good idea to clean it.
Plastic
Plastic also look and feel very hard like the wood, but try to clean it with shot blasting and you will most likely damage it. Therefore, cleaning a plastic surface through shot blasting will leave you with a mangled mess.
Building
Bricks also look quite formidable as they hold thousands of tons of the entire building weight on their shoulder. However, if you try to shot blast the surface, then it will severely damage the material.
We hope that this article has informed you regarding which materials can be ideally cleaned using the shot blasting method and which could not be done. To clean those surfaces you can use sandblasting, spraying it with highly pressurized water, or even manually clean it with a brush. If you are still confused about the applicability of the shot blasting process on a particular material, then we suggest that you consult experts in this field and act as per their instruction.
