ABRASIVE GRAINS

Glass Beads

Glas-Shot® microbeads are widely used in the impact treatment of surfaces. Their shape and chemical composition provide a variety of properties that no other media can claim.

When surfaces are impacted with Glas-Shot®, the process is clean, safe and user-friendly. Glas-Shot® is used in all types of compressed air blast equipment, using a dry or wet process. Glass bead treatment may be the only surface treatment or it may supplement a treatment. For example, initial treatment utilizing aluminum oxide followed by Glas-Shot® to greatly improve the surface finish.

Product U.S. Sieve Size Order Entry Number 10 LB BAG 25 LB PAIL 50 LB BAG SKID 40 BAGS
MS-XGX 20 - 30 71C2030 N/A 31.99 47.99 N/A
AAA 25 - 45 7139050 N/A 31.99 47.99 1040
AA 40 - 70 71M4070 N/A 31.99 47.99 1040
AB 50 - 80 7145850 19.99 31.99 47.99 1020
AC 60 - 120 7148950 19.99 31.99 47.99 1020
AD 70 - 140 71F70140 N/A 31.99 47.99 1000
AF 100 - 170 7148050 N/A 31.99 47.99 1020
AG 120 - 270 71XF140 N/A 31.99 47.99 1040
AH 170 - 325 7142050 N/A 31.99 47.99 please call
MS-XL 270 & F 7144050 N/A 31.99 47.99 N/A

Offering many sizes, glass beads are primarily used in blasting cabinets for honing, polishing, peening, blending, finishing, removing light burrs and cleaning most light foreign matter. For delicate thin-walled parts and thin welds, peening with glass bead abrasive material provides the right balance of stress relief without over-stressing and causing damage.

Glass shot can typically be re-cycled 30 times under normal use.