The Dana-Ridge wet-blasting process offers many advantages over both the regular dry sandblasting method AND the hobbyist wetblast machines out there.
They’re environmentally friendly and less hazardous to user health with its dustless operation. Also, there’s no need for an expensive filtration system. You can blast with finer or coarser media than a dry blaster and blast items that would get destroyed in a regular sandblaster.
Being heavy duty commercial grade machines means they can provide a greater volume of media to the gun at a greater flow-rate This increases both the efficiency and the range that these machines are capable of. Very important considerations when time is money for your operation.
Its one-step cleaning and blasting process it eliminates the need for component pre-cleaning and degreasing and you don’t have to worry about leaving fingerprints behind when you touch the brilliantly finished part.
You’ll see terms such as “wet-blaster, vapour honer, vapour blaster, vapour matting, slurry blasting” and more. This can cause some confusion and leaves some new wet-blast cabinet owners wondering why they can’t get the same finish as the contract blaster they used to take their parts to (who was likely using the Dana-Ridge wetblast process). Not only that, there are machines on the market that are geared towards to home hobbyist. These machines are commercial grade and mean less time processing.