Sandblasting can be used for many different things. One of this possibilities is also blasting of the glass. This is good part of sandblasting since it can be used in many different aspects. but it’s also bad side since you need a lot of different equipment to do everything.
Glass sandblasting equipment is no different. You need some specialized equipment to get job done professionally. For start you need some specialized sandblasters which are specially designed for glass sandblasting. It must have the possibility for you to slide glass at it’s back side where you can sandblast it.
Also other equipment must be slightly different. Nozzles are slightly different, but the materials are still the same, tungsten carbide or ceramic compound.
The biggest problem with sandblasting glass is same as with other types of sandblasting, picking up proper abrasive. There is just so many possible options even “sandblasting scientists” (they don’t exist though) wouldn’t know exactly which one is best to use.
Sandblasting is process of propelling small parts of material at high speed to clean a surface, especially walls before painting. This process cause the wear of sandblast equipment, so equipment has to be made from quality material. Quality sandblast equipment last longer, is easy to use and maintain and produce good results when using the sandblaster machine. Sandblast equipment consist of abrasive blast media, blast cabinets, nozzles, turntables, dust collectors, and many other blast equipment accessories and parts of sandblaster machine.
Sandblast gun is also one of the parts of sandblast equipment.
Sandblast gun is part of sandblaster which you use on surface or media. It’s connected to sandblater with hose, normaly two of them, one comes form bottom from sandblast container and other is connected to top of the container. Purpose of this is that sandblasting sand comes form container, abrases surface and then goes back to container. Of course it’s cleaned so it can be used more than one time.
When you buy sandblasting gun you normally get hoses with it, but not in every case, so make sure to double-check what all you get with sandblast gun.
The important part of sandblasting equipment is nozzle. There is a wide range of sandblasting nozzles created for your needs. There are nozzles for huge stripping job or for precise work. Nozzle is a part of equipment witch is exposed to high wear so it is very important to choose very quality nozzles. This allow you to work on demanding tasks with quality abrasive power guaranteed. It is important to use the right size of nozzle. Finer tasks demand precise sandblasting nozzles. Jobs that demand to strip bigger are of paint demand wider nozzle that can carry bigger amount of material. Nozzles that are made for larger jobs and for transporting higher air flow are made of carbide and even ceramic material. One should choose a nozzle as part of equipment that can cope demands of a job one wants to do.