DIY Home Built Vapor Blasting/ Honing Cabinet , wetblasting

[jopequebien]

I'm new at the forum and just registered after watching this awesome thread!
Very excited to see how this becomes true, I always wanted to vapor blast my car/motorcycle parts, looking great at this moment, keep on!

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[duffymahoney]

Well my home built vapor blasting cabinet works awesome. Uses a ton of air. So I had to bring it to my work. So happy! I don’t need as much glass to water. Maybe 25% glass.

[wheee!]

Wow... very nice results! Congrats!

[jopequebien]

Near my home there's a professional working with these vapor wet blasting cabinets and they use nutshell particles for the aluminum engine parts, I personally sent them to clean motorcycle engines with excellent results, did you hear about this medium?


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[grannyknot]

Fantastic results!  Any problems seeing in the cabinet while blasting or glass beads clumping up?

[240260280]

WOW!!!! How many CFM are needed?

[duffymahoney]

Thanks guys.  Walnuts would be more abrasive then this by a lot.  

This is so soft that it doesn't even take sealant off or silicone.  It's sort of looks fake its so nice.  

 

No idea on cfm.  I have a small compressor at home that wasn't good enough.  I could go about 1 minute before I need to take a break and let it recharge.  

 

Beads clumped a bit, honestly the amount of beads needed is so small.  Tomorrow I will try much less glass and see how it works.  

[Patcon]

Excellent results!!!

What do you think you have invested in the completed cabinet and beads?

[duffymahoney]

I don’t know. I would say less then 500

 

the cabinet is pretty junky. If i was doing this for a living I would buy a stainless one. 

[grannyknot]

You watch, in a month there will be 8 more of us with our own DUFFYBLASTER, or  MAHONEY VAPOR HONER

[duffymahoney]

Haha. It’s kind of a pain. Honestly for how much I needed done it would have been smarter to use a local company. But sadly none:(

[Patcon]

7 minutes ago, duffymahoney said:

Haha. It’s kind of a pain. Honestly for how much I needed done it would have been smarter to use a local company. But sadly none:(

Oh I don't know. You can never have too many tools!!!