Why you may not be getting the optimum from your wetblast unit The direction of rotation of a 3-phase motor can be changed by reversing two of its stator leads. This interchange…
Revisiting our soda blasted carby and re-blasting with fine glass bead In a previous blog post we blasted a carburettor using soda and explained the benefits and drawbacks of that…
Media Concentration Except for very fine grain media (e.g. 45-90 micron), most Dana-Ridge wetblast machines give best results at around 25%-30% by volume of media to water.Too much media can…
Aluminium Oxide in a Dana-Ridge Wetblast Unit In this article Dana-Ridge is going to focus on another popular media used in our wetblast machines and is one of the fastest…
Using glass bead in your Dana-Ridge wetblast machine Glass bead is one of the more popular media for blasting in a Dana-Ridge wet blaster. It’s the one that gives the…
Now available from Dana-Ridge is the mini porta-wet-cyclone (Mini PWC), the easy way to empty your wet blast machine of media while leaving the water inside.Like its big brother, the…
As part of our series on soda blasting, Dana-Ridge set up our old COMET machine for filming just as one of our customers from the aircraft maintenance industry stopped by.…
Although wetblasters are primarily known for their superior ability to clean metal surfaces, they can also be used to clean plastics and rubbers. Such is the range of these machines…
Here we blasted a portion of a 50-year-old suspension component with Bicarbonate of soda. It was done at around 85psi in a 40-year-old COMET machine. As you can see it…
There is a common misconception about blasting with soda, where people believe it gives a bright finish. This is not so. It is not a popularly used media as it…