Does anyone have a basic sandblasting attachment for their compressor? What are they like?
Need to do a few odd jobs, bullbar etc and was wondering if they are sufficient.
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Daryl
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good and hany "little" tool...... little being the key word here, there are ideal for small jobs but unless you have a large compressor then it would probably take a day to do a bullbar !!.
They are however excelent for cleaning off rust etc on small items, like say a battery tray.
Getting dry sand is also a bit of a problem at times too and another thing is the actual sand itself..... make sure you get "river sand", others contain salt so what ever you clean you are just adding the corsives straight back in.
Kingy
They are however excelent for cleaning off rust etc on small items, like say a battery tray.
Getting dry sand is also a bit of a problem at times too and another thing is the actual sand itself..... make sure you get "river sand", others contain salt so what ever you clean you are just adding the corsives straight back in.
Kingy
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Never be tempted to just go to the beach and grab a bucket of sand. Beach sand along with most sand found naturally contains silica which when inhaled causes a lung disease called silicosis.
Believe me there is a lot of dust flying around when you sand blast and you don't want to breath it not matter what it contains.
I have a cheap snadblasting gun (about $30.00) that I use. It's in a home made blasting cabinet I made out of a 44 drum and an old sign. I ended up putting a vent in the top that connects to a vacuum cleaner because in the shed it was creating too much dust.
The blasting gun itself works well but as above it is very slow. I don't think it would be powerful enough to remove the powder coat on a bullbar though. I know for a fact that if ARB needs to strip the powdercoat off a bullbar they put it in a blast furnace and burn it off as it's more effective than sandblasting.
Believe me there is a lot of dust flying around when you sand blast and you don't want to breath it not matter what it contains.
I have a cheap snadblasting gun (about $30.00) that I use. It's in a home made blasting cabinet I made out of a 44 drum and an old sign. I ended up putting a vent in the top that connects to a vacuum cleaner because in the shed it was creating too much dust.
The blasting gun itself works well but as above it is very slow. I don't think it would be powerful enough to remove the powder coat on a bullbar though. I know for a fact that if ARB needs to strip the powdercoat off a bullbar they put it in a blast furnace and burn it off as it's more effective than sandblasting.
Yep
I have one of those and it works great. I have a 24 CFM compressor but have run it on a 15 fine. I blast Bull bars, VW floor pans, trailers etc etc no problems at all.
It takes about 5 kg of garnet to do a VW floor pan.
It takes about 5 kg of garnet to do a VW floor pan.
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