Blast nozzle materials ARE a big deal. Read why here.

Using the wrong blast nozzle material can be costly! Not just in terms of the price of the nozzle, but more importantly, in terms of productivity and ongoing maintenance. A simple upgrade can save you big bucks.

Listen, no one wants to work on a piece of blast equipment more than they need to. So why use cheap nozzles that need to be changed frequently?

When nozzles are left in too long (because the maintenance department has priorities other than their blasting equipment), bad things happen.

An eroded nozzle no longer has the engineered shape to propel blast media most effectively. That wastes time, and can bog down production.

In direct-pressure blast machines, compressed air consumption skyrockets - and you probably know that compressed air is expensive! You can double your CFM requirements, and then some, easily.

Moreover, that extra air running through your blast hose speeds up tremendously - thousands of feet per minute. Now you know why you "blow through" blast hoses. It's not the fault of the blast hose; the nozzle opened up too soon!

All this can happen when you choose the 'cheap' nozzle. Or, you're still using the style you've always used, but now that the economy is simmering, you're blasting more. In the end, this is one case where status quo or "the cheapskate" in the business tends to pays the most in the end!

You know that the nozzle is a consumable, so why not leverage your maintenance dollars; and make them work for you.

Next: Find out the optimum nozzle materials. Click here for a "second column" examination of what works best for your blasting.