What You’ll Learn:
- Cerakote blast essentials
- How blast profile, cleanliness, and consistency impact coating performance.
- An inside look into Cerakote’s technical evaluation and testing processes
- Standardized aluminum oxide and garnet comparisons, blast profile measurements, and key ASTM test results (adhesion, impact, bend, scratch/gouge, corrosion, abrasion, thermal cycling, and more).
- Results with 10X EpiX MP
- How EpiX MP performed against target profiles and performance tests, and what stayed the same vs. what changed when using a unique engineered superoxalloy abrasive
- Media design, safety, and supply
- What EpiX MP is, how it’s made, and why it is classified by IARC in the same Group 3 category as coffee (not classifiable as carcinogenic to humans), explained in practical terms.
- Recommended settings & transition tips
- Joint guidance from Cerakote and 10X on dialing in EpiX MP for Cerakote: nozzle, pressure, stand-off, and how to approach test panels when changing media.