Black Walnut Shell Blasting Media

Walnut shell blasting media has a granular appearance and a hardness of moh 3 5 and rockwell 91.

Black walnut shell blasting media. The shells make up a large percentage of the nut and serve as a very useful product for a wide range of applications. Media blasting has a variety of uses from removing a layer of paint to deodorizing a countertop to eliminating fire damage. Crushed black walnut shells offer a softer gentler media blasting alternative to these harsher materials. It has a specific gravity of 1 2 1 4.

Composition materials offers premium soft abrasive in black and english walnut shell grades. Walnut shell media is an all natural biodegradable low cost solution for blast cleaning paint stripping coating removal pressure blasting tumbling deflashing and deburring. Specifically intended for use in dry air blasting applications walnut shells are a lightweight angular media that will effectively remove topcoats while leaving undercoating intact. It is the harder of the soft abrasives available in a variety of sizes for blast cleaning and polishing softer surfaces that could incur damage from harsher abrasives.

Black walnut will leave less scarring and pitting on the logs because the shell is a bit thicker than english walnut. With a high pressured system and the right abrasive this process can produce both a cleaning and finishing action for your surfaces. This walnut shell blasting media is great for rust free paint removal from sheet metal and for cleaning engines and transmissions walnut media blasting is especially effective when you want to clean paint grease and other dirt from the surface of a material but maintain the integrity of the substrate materials. A 3060 black walnut is preferred by most people although a 2030 can be used also.

Walnut shell blasting composition materials co inc. Dry abrasive blasting applications are typically powered from a diesel air compressor br most applications involve a pressurized vessel that contains the abrasive and meters it into the compressed air stream. Black blast is made for abrasive blasting applications. If what you want to remove has good adhesion and or multiple coats of paint then the coarser 2030 would be preferred.

It is an excellent soft grit abrasive media used for blast cleaning and tumbling. Walnut shell abrasive is a hard naturally occurring material made from crushed walnut shells. Has been a leading worldwide supplier of walnut shell media for over 60 years. Composition materials has been a leading supplier of walnut shell abrasives for over 60 years.