Blast Cabinet Question

[hls30.com]

Here are the pictures!

One of the cabinet sitting on top of a tool box. You can clearly see the rectangles of cardboard and the difference they make in clarity of the shield through use. You can also see the air nipple I installed, it has a female on the other end, and a whip hose between the gun and the fitting-its picture was too dark. Yes, I did tape up the glove mounting rings-they leaked dust before the shopvac...

One of the lens and covering with the light on, clearly showing the low/no visability of the used half of the plastic shield, and the clarity of a recently uncovered/low use section of the shield.

There are alos two pictures of the shopvac filter, the one with the uniform color is the dirty one-almost no air flows through it. I disturbed some of the dust to show the filter underneath in the next picture.

Finally there is a picture of the light in the bag-all taped up and dusty from use!

The magnet holds the light to the underside of the top of the cabinet.

TexasZ, If I didn't take the pictures you wanted, let me know, and I will take more.

Will

[texasz]

Will, no that will work. I just was not sure what kind of bag you were using; I was thinking a freezer bag. I was also curious how you sealed it up. Thank you.

[AChev]

I was curious about something. I was in HF today looking at some media blasting units, and do most of you use siphon fed ones with your cabinets or pressurized. My take was the siphon fed ones were garbage, and a 20 pound pressurized unti was only $45, what do you guys all have?

[hls30.com]

Both my cabinet and my bucket are siphon fed-for the $11 I paid for it, the space it a takes up when I am not using it, and its portability, I would put it up against a pressurized put any day. Pressureized does work better because it forces the media into the airsteam, and the siphoon feed does have a tendancy dig its own hole in the media. But a quick kick of the bucket, and you are back in the sand.

In the cabinet, the media continually gets re-used if you put the proper amount of media in the cabinet, it will just keep going. No real need for a pressureized system there.

Will

[AChev]

yea, plus the siphon fed ones are cheaper, sounds like a good deal

[texasz]

Ok, I know that this is an old thread...though instead of starting a new one for the same topic I wanted to retain the knowledge shared in this one already.

I'm looking for ideas on protecting the 'window' on my blast cabinet. Will has already shared the cardboard idea and then there's this one too:

I buy my plastic film in a roll from Tap Plastics. Its 5 mill thick

and comes in a 2ft wide roll thats 50ft long. My viewing window

is 2 ft wide and 1 foot high. I have most of the 50 foot roll left

I will cut and mail a piece for your blaster as long as each piece

is no bigger than 2ft X 1 Ft for $1.25 each piece shipping included.

This film does not replace the viewing window it just covers the

glass. A bead blaster is not going to be as hard on the film as

a sand blaster.

Do you have a link to what you bought? This is all I could find: http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=252& Also, how does this material adhear to the window?

Also, if anyone else has any ideas I'd love to hear them. I need something!

One idea I had was clear contact paper, it's available just about anywhere including Walmart. The thing with that is that it would leave a glue residue when it is removed...I'd prefer something that stuck to the glass via static, that would be ideal.

[geezer]

Someone suggested using a screen to deflect the majority of blast media. I think this is a great idea, but I haven't tried it yet because I'm still using glass bead that is too fine for any screen I have seen. When I bought my cabinet, it came with a half dozen spare plastic overlays, complete with the adhesive peel & stick edges. Extras are available where I bought the cabinet also. I customized my cabinet, adding externally mounted lighting and an additional squirrel cage blower to bring in clean air, which really helps the shop vac to clear the air. Next, improvement will be a water filter positioned inline before the shop vac. It was a lot easier when I used to sandblast inside an old screened dining tent, but not according to my neighbors.

[Maples71240Z]

Ok, I know that this is an old thread...though instead of starting a new one for the same topic I wanted to retain the knowledge shared in this one already.

I'm looking for ideas on protecting the 'window' on my blast cabinet. Will has already shared the cardboard idea and then there's this one too:

Do you have a link to what you bought? This is all I could find: http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=252& Also, how does this material adhear to the window?

Looks like what I got from TAP but not for that much $$$$!!! Its cut the same size as the glass and just has the glass laying on top of it. PM me the size of the glass and your address and I will send you some.

Dave...

Edited May 31, 2009 by Maples71240Z

[DeesZ]

My cabinet (Snap-On) came with a very fine mesh plastic screen. It has saved the glass any damage for years.

[geezer]

My cabinet (Snap-On) came with a very fine mesh plastic screen. It has saved the glass any damage for years.

This is what I want to adapt to my cabinet. After reading your post John, I looked in the Snap-on catalog under blasting accessories for the screen, or a kit, but they only list the window replacement films. Do you have a part number for the screen or can you describe it? How is it held in place?

I mentioned that I used to sandblast in an old dining tent. I learned that the dust escaped but the sand was contained, so when I heard of screen being used to protect the viewing windows on blasting cabinets, it made perfect sense to me. I am curious if it is effective when using #13 fine glass bead.

[hls30.com]

This mesh idea sounds good. I have some seriously fine Stainless mesh I bought for filtering my parts washing fluid.

I'll see if it will work for this, if so, I bought the minimum purchase, and there should be enough for three or four sets...

I have bead in my cabinet now and planned to strip the paint off several Series 1 steering wheels mid week, if the mesh looks appropriate, I will try it on the clear parts of my viewing area, and post how it does.

I'll build a frame of thin wood molding, cover it with the mesh(speaker grill of sorts), glue on some small rare earth magnets, and see what she'll do!

WIll

[hls30.com]

I had another thought, but it may well not pan out.

I have a roll of cling wrap that I wrap my extra engines in after cosmoline and before storage, maybe a layer of it on the glass would do the trick-lots of static, but maybe a squirt of fabric softener will take car of that!

Will