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Old 10-18-2010, 09:35 PM   #5
Keith True
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Default Re: Bead Vs. Sand Vs. Walnut Blasting vs. Other media

With Black Beauty fine is a coarse as you want to go.I use fine on dump bodies,rubbish packers,any heavy iron.The local brickyard won't even carry the medium.They sell a lot of sand and nobody uses it here.The power plant where they make it is about 20 miles from me so I buy it by the pallet there.The local plant has been bought out,so it is no longer called Black Beauty here any more.It is now called Patriot blast.Same stuff,coal slag.I like it because it is not harmful like silica.The warnings on the bags are all zeros.It states,treat as a nuisance dust.Mechanical irritation may occur.I hope so,the new management at the plant says in reviewing past customers said I have bought over 300 tons of it starting about 1980. 200 pallets in 30 years.
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