... the lye layer. Because of this potential extra step, I have always used silicon carbide grit. If you got a good abrasion on the glass, I would suspect some sort of oily layer ...

Brian, A good media to blast for chipping would be 100 - 150 grit silicon carbide. If you decide to do solution gilding, you can forgo washing with lye as required to ...

... results. A good media to blast for chipping would be 100 - 150 grit silicon carbide. If you decide to do solution gilding, you can forgo washing with lye as required to ...

Pat .I tried dressing the wheel with the silicon carbide and it as worked really well. Thanks for the tip ! Let me no when you start making your wheels. Good luck with that idea Pat.



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... ranges on their sides. There are also the black vitrious wheels made of silicon carbide (carborundum). The wheels we treasure as glass cutters are the light colored ALOXITE ...

... versatile. I pretty much limit blasting in the cabinet to glass. I use silicon carbide which lasts a long time. I have an area at the back of my property where I do my wood ...

... you want to keep your recycled abrasive as clean and pure as possible. Silicon Carbide will last a long, long time if only blasting glass, but small pieces of stencil and ...

... week and hand obscured it the same way as you explained Pat. I used the silicon carbide abrasive Mine as left a hint of pecking as you said on the edges, I have noticed this ...

... and water. Their term of emery was either a fine sand or carborundum (silicon carbide abrasive) Grinding is faster and sharper than painting all those polished cuts with ...

... agent which embeds itself into the soft copper. A supply of silicon carbide and oil act as the glass cutting agent. Traditional copper wheel cutting is usually ...

... amount of etched spots that did not chip. The glass was etched with silicon carbide - our first using this material. The glass was blown off with air before applying the ...

... 250 442-2260 In addition, this company carries silica, aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, garnet as well as others that aren't suited for glass work. The cost for silicon carbide ...

Thanks Dan and Ray, I haven't been able to source the silicon carbide here yet, but I think I'll make a bigger effort. Sometimes I'm too lazy. :) I'm just starting ...

... is the one doing the etching....I just stand around and watch. The silicon carbide carved deeply into the glass with little effort and without the dust that is usually ...

... Raymond speak for himself but there are a couple of nice features about silicon carbide. For one thing, aluminum oxide, which has a brown color, seems to cling to everything ...

Wow...what a world of difference between aluminum oxide and silicon carbide

Can you expand on that Raymond?

Thanks Danny.

Wow...what a world of difference between aluminum oxide and silicon carbide. And you get a little light show, too.

We've just received our order of silicon carbide and are ready to do some glass etching using this rather than aluminum oxide.

What should be the psi using this new aggregate?

... it's the 164 gram strength, and works 100 % of the time. I use 180 mesh silicon carbide which works ok, but I've seen work by others that use 100 mesh silica sand and the ...

... with the chipping process. I etch the glass in my blast room with silicon carbide, heat the glue in a glue pot, adding more mix when needed My heat box temp gets between ...

... two popular types of abrasive for etching glass are aluminum oxide and silicon carbide. Of the two, aluminum oxide can leave a residue requiring a lye bath. Knowing that, ...

... much about the glass beads. I never used anything but silica sand or silicon carbide and both worked. There might have been some contamination from oily beads? If I were ...

... 100 pcs. or more I sandblast the holes with a 1/16" dia. carbide nozzle in conjunction with a reusable piece of lexan with a 3/16" ... or cups with slots machined into them. This method uses a mixture of silicon carbide grit and water as a cutting agent. The slots in the tube ...

... if you don't . To stay away from the issue, Rick recommended using silicon carbide abrasive. I believe I saw the comment in Sarah King's Angel Gilding instructions, but ...