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Want to do "glass etching" process on steel

Dear Sir ,

I would like to know is there any system like Glass Etching Number on Car, like this can we Etch the Number on any steel body? Is there any Stencil ? or how could we do?
Please guide us.

Thanks

Mrs. Yogita Shah
business woman - Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
October 13, 2010

That is a common method. It would typically use a silicon stencil mat and a very tiny micro blast "gun" on a small blast system. Some will use an actual cabinet and some will use it in open air and not recycle any of the grit.
A carbide material would work best for your grit. Aluminum oxide (white) would also work well. I would not use sand.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida
October 14, 2010

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