Glass Beads

Glass Beads Abrasive

Glass Beads are lightly cleaned metal elements (Part) without etching the surface, leaving a smooth, polished, or matte finish. Glass Bead blasting Abrasive is a chemically inert, spherical abrasive ideal for cleaning, peening, or polishing of sensitive articles (objects) such as automotive parts, or molds. Often used in shot blasting cabinets where it can be collected and reused.

Glass beads are made from lead-free, soda lime-type glass, containing no free silica that is built into preformed round, ball shapes. They offer a much smoother and brighter finish than angular abrasives material. Glass bead blasting provides a clean, bright, peened, satin finish, without dimensional change of the parts. They can be recycled almost 30 times. Chemically inert and environmentally friendly, glass beads are an adequate system of metal cleaning or surface finishing when properly controlled.

Glass Beads Specifications

Available in a broad range of sizes, glass beads are essentially utilized in blasting cabinets for honing, polishing, peening, blending, finishing, removing light burrs, and cleaning most light foreign substances (material). For delicate thin-walled elements and thin welds, peening with glass bead abrasive substance (material) provides the right balance of stress release without over-stressing and causing damage.

Glass Beads Applications

• Cold working of metal surfaces, i.e. shot peening and honing.
• General cleaning, removing light foreign matter.
• Decorative finishing, polishing, or matting.

Glass Beads Advantages

• Used for the cold working of metal surfaces as well as for general cleaning, deburring and decorative finishing whilst retaining the dimensional integrity of items staying blasted.
• For sensitive thin-walled parts and thin welds, peening with glass bead abrasive substance (material) gives the right balance of stress release without over-stressing and causing damage.
• A silica-free choice for shot blasting, peening, honing, cleaning, and light deburring
• Chemically inert and environmentally friendly
• Available in a wide range of sizes
• Can be recycled up to 30 times

Technical data

• Hardness: 6 – 7 Moh scale
• Specific weight: 2.5g/cm3
• Bulk weight: 1.6 kg / l
• Free silica: None
• Shape: Round
• Storage: Dry and Sheltered
• Packaging: Paper Bags of 25kg net

Typical chemical analysis

• Si02: 72.55% (No free silica)
• Al203: 0.5 – 2%
• K2O: 0.88%
• Na2O: 13.78%
• CaO: 7.02%
• Fe2O3: 0.18%
• MgO: 3.02%

Glass Beads Manufacturer in India

We provide steel shot, SS shot, copper slag, steel grit, garnet sand, quartz shot, aluminum oxide, glass beads, etc. We provide a large range of products and are checked on various parameters, such as density, physical and chemical properties, microstructure, hardness, durability.

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