Thread: New Idea??? Experimentation....

Originally Posted by Iron_Beard

Has anyone tried this media? It is green like CrOx and I was wondering if it was of any value beyond the walnut shells.

Harbor Freight

I just loaded up my polisher with this media about an hour ago. The stuff is *really* loud. With the lid off the polisher, it's so loud it's physically uncomfortable to hear. With the lid on, it's tolerable, but just barely.

I watched the blade in the media for a few minutes... it seemed to be working its way through the media and around the polisher better than it was doing in the walnut media.

This blade had been sanded through 400 grit, but I did notice a few scratch marks left from a more coarse grit, and I found a few defects i had missed. So we'll see how this media works on a good range of scratches and defects.

While at Harbor Freight, I also picked up five pounds of 320 grit aluminum oxide powder. I'm thinking about adding it to walnut media to give it some additional teeth, but thought I'd run it passed you guys first. Thoughts?

The ceramic media from HF is very aggressive. Much more so than walnut. The marring it left was not removed by two days in treated walnut media. It is removed easily with 400-600 grit paper, though.