I got a new sandblaster from orchelins farm and home last week and that thing is great. I have used it quite a bit and I have glass bead abrasive for it, and let me tell you all something, if you have ever tried to clean an engine block with carb cleaner or oven cleaner and it's still dingy looking, don't work so hard. This sand blaster does it all at one time. It doesn't give the shiney apperance but it does get it super clean and just blow the dust off or wipe it down and prime and paint. It is made by Clark and was $89 and $42 for dthe glass bead (50lb barrel) well worth it. And it works great on metal. Makes rust dissapear instantly. And I also got a free shop vacc that I am foing to make a cabinet out of. Any one else have a sandblaster??
New sand blaster!!
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I got a big triple cylinder compressor that is single stage for the 18.5 cfm volume. And then I bought the bigger Harbor Freight blast cabinet and I am also using glass bead . I use it for a lot of rusty parts for my trike project. The Bonanza BC100 should fit inside . But I do need to hook up the vacuum to the cabinet the fine glass leaks out a bit.
You could make up a drip leg in your air line away from the compressor just before the attachment to the sand blast cabinet . It can be made of schedule 40 PVC and set up a drain on the bottom of the leg and tap the air of the side of the pipe and most of the moisture should go to the bottom of the drip leg to be drained out.
Steve
Steve
i bought one of those cheap cabinets and it was a bitch to put together:hammer::weld::censure:, but when it was done i found out that my air compressor was a little on the small side. its a good compressor a 33 gallon craftsman . it runs my air ratchet no problem, but the blaster requires a constant stream of 100 psi
:censure:. I actrually do alot of blasting out side with a hand blaster and it works pretty good. but the sand gets all over. so i am gonna get a new compressor! Its funny i use to work a shop with nothing but blast cabinets and belts sanders die grinders and a $50,000 75 horse all computerized compressor with a 500 gallon tank compacity and i quit. now i need this stuff:grind::hack::thefinger:
:censure:. I actrually do alot of blasting out side with a hand blaster and it works pretty good. but the sand gets all over. so i am gonna get a new compressor! Its funny i use to work a shop with nothing but blast cabinets and belts sanders die grinders and a $50,000 75 horse all computerized compressor with a 500 gallon tank compacity and i quit. now i need this stuff:grind::hack::thefinger:
Blasting
Couple of years ago i started on my 93 SHO Taurus projectSHO PROJECT and needed to snadblast a bunch of parts I got one of those 99$ cheapo Syphon feed metal cabinets from Harbor Freight it worked great for the first couple of uses, I have been useing glass bead pretty much exclusivly, it leaves a nice clean smooth finish and will pretty much take off any paint/rust/cakedoncrap you can throw at it. I let the cabinet sit on the side of my house for about a year, in that time it pretty much turned to crap. The plastic lid deformed and the gloves got all nasty its pretty much useless now! I have been thinking I might get one of those canister style blasters where you fill the can its then pressurized and the media is forced out the nozzle end. To me it sounds like a much better design than the syphon feed guns? I was planning on turning an old 5' dia. kiddy pool into a small blasting booth. Wrapping the pool in chicken wire then zip tieing on a cheapo blue tarp to act as the sides. I think the depth of the pool and the tarp sides should allow me to reclaim most of my blast media to reuse it! The pool would be big enough to let me blast something like an engine block, transmission housing, or a good sized minibike frame! Oh yea i forgot We use a 5hp 60 gallon 100% duty cycle Ingersol compressor It works like a champ best 900$ I ever spent we use it almost everyday!
the Black one is are old compressor it likes to eat bearings!
Couple of years ago i started on my 93 SHO Taurus projectSHO PROJECT and needed to snadblast a bunch of parts I got one of those 99$ cheapo Syphon feed metal cabinets from Harbor Freight it worked great for the first couple of uses, I have been useing glass bead pretty much exclusivly, it leaves a nice clean smooth finish and will pretty much take off any paint/rust/cakedoncrap you can throw at it. I let the cabinet sit on the side of my house for about a year, in that time it pretty much turned to crap. The plastic lid deformed and the gloves got all nasty its pretty much useless now! I have been thinking I might get one of those canister style blasters where you fill the can its then pressurized and the media is forced out the nozzle end. To me it sounds like a much better design than the syphon feed guns? I was planning on turning an old 5' dia. kiddy pool into a small blasting booth. Wrapping the pool in chicken wire then zip tieing on a cheapo blue tarp to act as the sides. I think the depth of the pool and the tarp sides should allow me to reclaim most of my blast media to reuse it! The pool would be big enough to let me blast something like an engine block, transmission housing, or a good sized minibike frame! Oh yea i forgot We use a 5hp 60 gallon 100% duty cycle Ingersol compressor It works like a champ best 900$ I ever spent we use it almost everyday!
I bought a sandblaster from harbor freight about a week ago, haven't taken the time to check it out yet , but that will be coming soon, I did take a good look at it, and it looks like an old propane tank, with the valve removed and replaced with a cap that you can screw on , there is a drain in the bottom, for the sand to come out the hose, I'll post some pics of it at a later date if anyone is concerned, looks like it could be made with minimal shop experience. The valves look to be the most expencive parts, i think theres 6.
dave
dave
