Anyone ever use this for a sandblast medium?

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Anyone ever use this for a sandblast medium?

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I was talking to a guy that does sandblasting on small metal pieces and he said he uses baking soda. Has anyone ever tried this? Is the media too small to blast briar properly? Seems like an inexpensive, readily available medium.
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I have only tried blasting one pipe, it took me several hours to start seeing the results. I was using sand and 100PSI pressure. I guess if you had several weeks to spend blasting a pipe at least eight hours a day that baking soda might work.

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Post by Tyler »

Never heard of it used fubar, but I'm no blasting expert.

As WBill said though, briar is tough. Blasting it is no small matter. It doesn't sound like it would work, but that is based on intuition only.

How about you give it a try and let us know!? :thumb:

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Post by decee »

Soda blasting is a very common application in industry

http://www.sodablast.ca/app/soda.php
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Post by alexanderfrese »

I would guess they use a different particle size than the kind of soda we might find searching our households…
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