Are You Taking Advantage of These Cord Cob Grit Uses?
Just one look into our available tumbling media line will tell you just how diverse this industry is. There is a multitude of abrasive media to choose from before beginning your tumbling project. Heavy abrasives, soft media, reusable equipment, and organic media all provide different finishes. If you’re looking for a biodegradable form of media to complete with your finishing project, we suggest checking out corn cob grit.
Corn cob grit is a free-flowing and environmentally friendly abrasive made from hard cob. When used as a tumbling media, it absorbs oils and dirt while drying parts – all without affecting their surfaces. A safe blasting media, corn cob grit is also used for delicate parts.
Applications
Corn cob grit is a media used for finishing, tumbling, and blasting. It is a carrier for fertilizers, insecticides, and feed additives that can absorb hazardous wastes, liquids, oils, and greases. It is also good choice to use corn cob grit for jobs that require both an abrasive and absorbent counterpart – oils and liquids are absorbed by the grit while tumbling and finish the surface simultaneously. Free flowing and absorptive, corn cob grit has many uses. It has a Mohs hardness rating of 4.5 and is considered a soft abrasive.
Advantages
While there are many uses of corn cob media, its long list of advantages are reasons it can be used so diversely. First, it contains no health or environmental hazards and is a non-toxic blast cleaning media. Corn cob blast media reduces the cost of a job and finish operations thanks to its long-lasting and re-usable features. It also preserves micro finishes.
Whatever you are looking to finish, tumble, or blast, corn cob grit is a media that can last for long and provide the results that you need. You can get the job done without worrying about environmental hazards, liquids, or oils. It is both versatile and effective for sensitive and delicate parts. With corn cob grit, you can arrive at the end result you need without the risks. Try it out for one of your projects today. Kramer Industries will always ensure your abrasive media is of top quality. If you have any questions on which abrasive media is right for your project, reach out to our expert team.