AH glass bead is only 45-90 microns in diameter and has a flour-like consistency. It is the finest glass bead we supply and is most useful on uncoated parts where you require a nice bright finish or when cleaning plastics.
The small spheres have less of a peening effect than its larger stablemates but although you could remove paint with it, the low mass of the particles make it fairly uneconomical for such a task.
The mid to large size glass beads achieve this much more efficiently and the angular media even more so.
To learn more about the various media types available, please check out our page on choosing the appropriate media for your wet blasting application.