Recommended Abrasive Sanding Belts

You can have a variety of Abrasive Sanding Belts for your production machinery ranging from usually 0.5 inches to 53inches. The question arises what is the best Abrasive Sanding Belt to use?

Here we will provide you with a market survey for the recommended abrasive sanding belts and how can you choose them.

Aluminum Oxide Belts:

These belts are used for working with both metal and wood items like furniture etc. They gave you extra durability and flexibility and high quality finish to wood crafts, and are long lasting. Some of the Aluminum oxide belts are washable as well.

• Size ranges: 1/8" x 24"  24 GRIT to 150 GRIT
• Price ranges: Around $ 0.5 – $ 30

Silicon Carbide Belts:

Silicon carbide is mostly used when working with glass or gems sanding and are manufactured with a light weight cloth layering. They give you a crystalline and flawless result with gems and glass objects that requires minute level detail of sanding. The average prices for these ranges from $2.50 to $3.50 per belt.

Zirconia Belts:

These are sharper than Aluminum Oxide belts and more durable than Silicon Carbide. They have a long life and better performance ratio as compared to the above two types. These are mostly used for steels and iron and non iron alloys. They are used for alloys that are sensitive to heat and in heat reduction environments. The pricing for these types of belts ranges from $1.75 to $7.00 per belt.

Sun gold Belts:

Sun gold belts are used for sanding of mirrors, stones and belt glasses. These are also used for sanding of wood stroke, to give that golden touch the wood, like sun gold sanding can be used on doors, benches and panels as well. The price for them ranges from around $6 to $8 for sun gold metal belts and from $24 to $30 for wood strokes sanding belts.

Wide Belts Sanding Belts

Paper Sanding Belts

These are used for sanding of doors, frames, wooden cabinets, panels and other wooden parts. The prices for these belts range from $35 to $55. The ones costing $55 per belt has a size of 50" x 103" and the ones costing around $35 have and average size of 36" x 75".

Washable Sanding Belts

Washable sanding belts are used for softwoods for example pine. These are used where the belts get dirty easily and need constant rewashing. Prices for these types of belts range from $25 to $35 on average. The ones ranging in $25 have an average size of 16" x 48" and the ones ranging in $35 have an average size of 24" x 84".

General Purpose Sanding Belts

General Purpose sanding belts are used for all rounded sanding and sanding of wood and metals as well. The price for general purpose sanding belts range from $25 to $45. The ones ranged in the $25 zone have an average size of 17" x 54" and the ones ranging in the $45 zone these have an average size of 25" x 84".

This wraps up our review of the recommended abrasive sanding belts and we hope that you have enough information by now to get yourself the belt best suited for your tasks.

 

 

 

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