Want to add a smooth surface to a workpiece?

Shot blasting effectively removes rust, oxide, scale, and other remnants from surfaces so they can be restored or re-coated – providing an even texture.

Whilst several factors make shot blasting possible, a shot blast room is essential if you’re planning on making blast cleaning an in-house process.

As a leading supplier of complete finishing plants and systems, Surface Finishing Equipment Group (SFEG) knows everything there is to know about shot blast rooms.

Here we look at what they are and their effectivenes

Shot blasting is a popular technique used to remove debris and impurities from concrete, metal, and various other industrial surfaces.

Though the process itself is relatively straightforward – using a shot blasting machine to propel an abrasive at the surface at high speed – it’s crucial that all operators have access to the appropriate blasting personal protection equipment (PPE).

PPE will not only protect the user’s respiratory system, vision, and hearing but will also protect those working in the surrounding blast rooms and spray booths.

Here the UK’s leading suppliers of surface finishing equipment, Surface Finishing Equipment Group, share the best way to protect your workers when using abrasive media.

Regular exposure to airborne toxic materials is a very real hazard in the finishing industry, whether you work in the paint shop, powder coating, or industrial spraying environment.

Harmful particulate can be easily inhaled into the lungs and have serious (sometimes fatal) consequences. Therefore, it’s crucial that you have the appropriate respiratory protection, including an air-fed mask.

What is an air-fed mask?

Simply put, an air-fed mask is a welding helmet with a built-in respirator.

It uses a battery-powered fan to provide clean air to the user and prevents contaminated particles from being passed through the filter. As a result, it provides maximum protection against dust, dirt, and other potentially harmful fragments.

Though air-fed masks are mostly used in the workplace, they’re also suitable for use at home – particularly by users who carry out welding tasks, or use materials that generate a lot

Could your industry benefit from a sandblasting machine?

Sandblasting is the process of hurling abrasive media towards a surface at high speed to achieve a certain finish. There are two types used:

• Reusable abrasive – the most economical option of the two and includes steel grit, aluminium oxide, glass bead and steel shot.
• Expendable abrasive – typically used for open blasting where the blast media isn’t recovered or reused. Examples being iron silicate, garnet, olivine, stonegrit, and JBlast SC (a type of calcium silicate synthetic).

For many industry professionals, the sandblasting machine is an essential piece of equipment in the blast room – particularly for cleaning, deburring, and removing layers of paint and other coatings. There are various machines available and they all work differently. But for the most part, they propel media through a nozzle, via compressed air from an air

Introducing the New PX5 PAPR from RPB Safety. 

The RPB PX5 is a compact and versatile PAPR that changes the way people experience clean filtered air across multiple industries - from medical and chemical settings, to the profoundly harsh environments of blasting and paint spraying, the PX5 will provide totally portable clean air to your air fed helmet or mask.

Fullly compatible with the Z-Link & T-Link headtops and Nova 3 blast helmets.

Click here to see the PX5 introductory video

Products by Surface Finishing Equipment Group        

As the UK’s leading Surface Finishing Equipment provider, Surface Finishing Equipment Group supply innovative designs that match your criteria specifically.

SFEG provide a wide range of products and services that can be tailored to the needs and wants of various industry sectors. This includes abrasive blasting equipment, spray painting equipment, powder coating equipment, and personal protection equipment. 

Before you start using surface finishing equipment, it’s essential you have the right safety clothing, referred to as PPE.

As a requirement of HSE, you need to be protected if you’re undergoing any shotblasting or painting. An example of the PPE we provide includes our respiratory paint spraying masks, and shot blast helmets, which act to prevent any respiratory hazards from arising. These can either be air fed from a breathing air filter or supplied

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How do Respiratory Masks work?

Respiratory masks are something that you’ve probably heard of before but not entirely sure what they do. If this is the case, you’re in capable hands with the team of experts at Surface Finishing Equipment Group.

Respiratory Masks.

The purpose of a respiratory mask is to protect individuals from any potentially harmful chemicals or dusts. In wearing a respiratory mask, users can prevent hazardous consequences, essentially maximising air quality, comfort and durability.

Surface Finishing Equipment Group is your go-to supplier of the functional headwear, providing you with a practical solution for enhancing your safety needs.

Any of the respiratory masks from SFEG are designed to be user-friendly, suiting the needs and requirements of all industries. They are also designed to fit comfortably, enabling individuals to work safely, without compromising comfort.

A respiratory mask

A Beginners Guide to buying Blast Pots 

Every application requires a unique solution, you need to make sure that you choose the right blast pots for your specific application, and that’s where we come in!

Here at Surface Finishing Equipment Group, we cater for an array of needs, hence why we have put together a buyer’s guide to help you to work out what the blast pots are needed for and the considerations that you’ll need to make, prior to purchasing them!

With an extensive range of blast pots to choose from, you want to be sure that you find the most suitable ones to complete your project efficiently, why not consider the following factors?

Size.

At SFEG, we supply the blast pots in a variety of sizes, ranging from 20L, right up to 200L. For bigger projects, you’ll need to choose larger blast pots. These are ideal for in-house applications that require continual blasting.  With these blast pots, the need to refill them is less, allowing

RPB GX4 Gas Monitor

The RPB GX4 gas monitor gives you complete confidence that the supplied / compressed air you and your employees breathe is safe. By detecting when there are dangerous levels of toxic gasses, this monitor ensures you will be protected and alerted to the danger.

Dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide are invisible to all the human senses, yet are commonly found in industrial premises worldwide. Early symptoms of CO exposure can easily be mistake for flu, headaches or tiredness. Although low level exposure may not be immediately fatal, ongoing contact at low levels has a cumulative effect, causing serious illness and long term health issues.

Contamination of your breathing air can come from many areas such as vehicle exhaust fumes, welding fumes or portable compressor fumes which are drawn into the air compressor inlet.

The GX4 gas monitor detects up to four gases simultaneously and with the smart device and cloud integration capabilities