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Today numerous procedures are developed for the purpose of cleaning like Bead blasting, High Pressure cleaning through steam, Wheel blasting, Hydro blasting, Automated blasting, Dry blasting through ice etc. It is also called as pressure washing or sand blasting depending on nature of material used or blast equipment. Sand blasting machine or Shot Peening Machine are used for this purpose. The process is used for various kinds of applications. It is useful to customers for their industrial preparation, home and apartment renovations, cleaning and painting needs. Shot Peening Machine is often used by Shipyards for cleaning the hull of the ship. This procedure helps in removing graffiti from wall, paint from cars, surface finishing, clean mold from different surfaces. It is also widely used for cleaning of swimming pools. Sand blasting or Shot peening is a procedure to change a metallic surface or to remove substances from any metallic surface by using devices like spinning paddles, air gums etc. The 'shot' is generally made up of materials like silicon carbide, sand or small steel balls based on type of rust, scale, paint etc which are required to be separated from the metal surface. The purpose of Shot blasting machine is for the cleaning of metal surface. Depending on the equipment used, This process can also be used to change the surface coating or the texture of metal for enhancing its appearance so that it can also be used as decorative piece. During the process of shot blasting, few precautions should be taken. For example: The operators operating the Shot blasting machine must wear protective equipment such as masks, gloves etc. So that it can act as safeguard during any kind of accident or mishappening. Personnel’s who are well trained must only be allowed to perform operations of such machines because metals such as cadmium, lead are extremely toxic. High amount of noise is produced by these Shot, therefore protective equipment-noise mufflers must be used.
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