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Glass Sand Blasting

Glass Sand Blasting

Glass Sand Blasting Is a subtractive process of etching a design on a piece of glass.

Glass Sand Blasting The design is created by making a stencil which is applied to the surface of the glass.

Glass Sand Blasting The sandblasting design must be REVERSED!

Glass Sand Blasting The sandblasting design must be REVERSED!

Glass Sand Blasting The sandblasting design must be REVERSED!

Glass Sand Blasting Once the design has been cut the glass is placed in a sand blast cabinet.

Glass Sand Blasting Using high pressure and an abrasive the etching process begins.

Glass Sand Blasting Inside the cabinet is a gun which mixes high air pressure and abrasive compound.

Glass Sand Blasting Arms go into the cabinet through access holes.

Glass Sand Blasting Hands go into protective gloves inside the cabinet that allow the user to manipulate the gun and glass.

Glass Sand Blasting Abrasive compounds can be a variety of materials and grits.

Glass Sand Blasting Stencils are created from a material that resists the effect of the abrasive.

Glass Sand Blasting Mask material is applied to the glass, the designs are cut, and areas to be etched are removed to expose the glass.

Glass Sand Blasting Stencils are applied to the glass, the designs are cut and areas to be etched are removed to expose the glass.

Glass Sand Blasting Since sandblasting is a subtractive process, blasted areas appear frosted while the un-blasted area is clear.

Sandblasting is one type of media blasting.

Media Blasting is the same as sandblasting only using other materials as the blasting media.

Other types of media include baking soda, walnut shells, aluminum oxide, steel shot, glass beads and a variety of other products.

Media Blasting is used in many different industries for a variety of reasons.

Wood clean up and restoration

Manufacturing parts clean up

Automotive restoration and body work

Textile industry jean fading

Textile industry jean fading True fashion victims: Median survival of six years for patients with silicosis due to jeans sandblasting. Young men diagnosed with silicosis from sandblasting jeans face a bleak prognosis. This occupational hazard is mortal and needs to be prevented. This is the message Turkish doctors conveyed at the 20 th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society. Over the last decade, silica sand has been widely used in sandblasting of jeans in Turkey resulting in an epidemic of silicosis. The first case of sandblasting silicosis was described 8 years ago, defined as silicosis caused by jeans sandblasting. A new study examines clinical outcomes of young men who suffered disability or death from working in the textile industry.

Glass Sand Blasting is a subtractive process, not an additive process.

Glass Sand Blasting One of the most common questions, asked is, “Mr Craft I accidently made a mistake, can I wash this off and redo it? ”

Glass Sand Blasting NO! You are not putting anything on the glass.

Glass Sand Blasting You are actually etching, putting tiny little chips into, the surface of the glass. It is abrasive, subtractive means removing. You are actually removing glass.

Glass Sand Blasting It is abrasive, or subtractive, which means you are actually removing glass.

Glass Sand Blasting You can conceivably blast a hole through the surface of the glass.