Buying a sandblasting setup

[Jim Bowen 1]

decided whilst cleaning my brakes up that i'm going to buy a sand blasting setup between me and a mate, and set it up in his workshop

 

does anyone know much about what to get, what not to get? looking at a gun with a pick-up pipe rather than a hopper

 

should be very useful as i'm always finding myself struggling with a wire brush etc

 

also will be able to offer my services to other people :D

[BILLCOR 1]

I've just bought gear for work, Painter & Decorator, compressor, blaster, descaler etc, have a look in the link below, the prices are pretty good

http://www.tooled-up.com

[Jim Bowen 1]

this is the gun i was thinking of getting

 

http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=28363

[Yandards 0]

I bought the generic Chinese made red cabinet a while back.

 

Works ok but you really need to add some negative pressure otherwise the filter cant cope. I bought another filter from the spares department and fitted that too but it still overpressurises. A hoover sucking on the inside of the filter cures it though :D

[dukest 0]

will wait for your services to be advertised!!

[Jim Bowen 1]

I bought the generic Chinese made red cabinet a while back.

 

Works ok but you really need to add some negative pressure otherwise the filter cant cope. I bought another filter from the spares department and fitted that too but it still overpressurises. A hoover sucking on the inside of the filter cures it though :D

 

 

i was going to get chap to make a cabinet for me instead of buying one

 

not sure what you mean about overpressurising? the filter in bottom of cabinet? or do you have one near the gun? for filtering the sand

 

the cabinet we thought of is basically a box with large two screens of mesh (different sizes) and then a sloped bottom to a hole which goes back to gun

[bcstudent 0]

You're blowing compressed air into a sealed box and there has to be a way for the pressure to be released without taking the sand with it. That's done through a hole in the back of the cabinet with a filter attached.

[Supercharged 2]

As above, basically yan found when new the single filter was ok but as it got slightly clogged it started to over pressure... he fitted a second to overcome this.

[Jim Bowen 1]

aha, i see, that makes sense :lol:

[Yandards 0]

As above, basically yan found when new the single filter was ok but as it got slightly clogged it started to over pressure... he fitted a second to overcome this.

 

But that does not work as well as I would like either so I bought a cheap vacuum cleaner and am going to shove into one of the filters to give it a bit more suction.

 

The little red cabs do give you all the bits you need, one day in the distant future I will be making my own cab out of some plywood and make it about alloy wheel size..

[Jim Bowen 1]

i think i will have a big extraction fan rigged up somehow, have a few lying around