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Gravity fed sandblaster

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Dieselrider

01-05-2008 12:25:04




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Those small (90#) gravity fed sandblasters, are they any good? The kind you can get through Harbor Freight or Tractor Supply. Just thought someone on here might have had some experience with them. Thanks




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HENRY E NC

01-06-2008 09:09:09




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 Re: Gravity fed sandblaster in reply to Dieselrider, 01-05-2008 12:25:04  
I had one and finally gave it away. It was slow, ate ceramic nozzles and clogged up most of the time after about 15 minutes. My compressor woould not hold pressure long enough to do much good. If you have a large 2 cylinder compr3essor thaT WILL HOLD ABOUT 70-90 LBS i THINK IT WOULD HAVE WORKeD BETTER. However I prefer to use the electrolysis because it is cleaner and lots less labor intensive. Also I believe it does a better job on most items. My answer to your question----not worth the time or energy and not to mention money. Henry

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Stumpalump

01-05-2008 18:03:11




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 Re: Gravity fed sandblaster in reply to Dieselrider, 01-05-2008 12:25:04  
I had one and sold it for pennys on the doller at my yard sale. It was a good TIP unit but it was so slow it made it worthless. It used a lot of air. You could sand a dime sized area in about a two minuts. Would be good if you only need to blast fishing reel parts or somthing small but for anything larger sandpaper had it beat. Also the sand needed to be imposibly dry to get it to feed so unless you live in a hot dry climate I'd foget about one that is siphon fed.

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Jim in Ma.

01-05-2008 16:14:34




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 Re: Gravity fed sandblaster in reply to Dieselrider, 01-05-2008 12:25:04  
It seems to me about a year and a half ago someone posted the plans on here. it was sort of small like an air tank from a truck. I know I saved those plans but can't find them now.



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trucker40

01-05-2008 14:56:58




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 Re: Gravity fed sandblaster in reply to Dieselrider, 01-05-2008 12:25:04  
I got one from Harbor Freight and its better than the ones that you pull sand out of a bucket,but still hard to keep it going.Does ok when it works.I used it to sandblast the frame on my pickup.It took all afternoon.Plus the sand I tried out of a sandpile wouldnt even work.I had to buy some real clean sandblaster sand from Ace hardware to get it to work.
I was at Grainger one day looking for something else and saw they had a lot better gun and hose than the one that comes with it.Graingers would take coarser sand,but they wanted $125.00 just for the hose,nozzle,and some bigger ceramic tips. If you were able to put that on there,or rig up something your self,maybe big enough to put about 2 bags of sand in it would be a lot better,if you were going to do a lot of sandblasting.Just my opinion.

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CNKS

01-05-2008 13:23:26




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 Re: Gravity fed sandblaster in reply to Dieselrider, 01-05-2008 12:25:04  
I have not used one, but my 90 lb pressure pot (similar in quality, or the lack of it, to HF products) is pretty anemic with my 24 cfm, 80 gallon compressor. It depends on how much time you want to spend sandblasting and how hard you want to work your compressor.



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Wardner

01-05-2008 12:46:46




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 Re: Gravity fed sandblaster in reply to Dieselrider, 01-05-2008 12:25:04  
I would estimate the productivity per compressor hp/hr of a pressure pot type sandblaster to be at least 5 times that of a syphon/gravity unit. Heck, maybe 10 times. It's hard to compare the two types as the advantage is so lopsided

But they can be handy for very small jobs or touching up larger jobs.

I suggest that you get the pressure pot as your first sandblaster.



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Wardner

01-05-2008 14:20:05




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 Re: Gravity fed sandblaster in reply to Wardner, 01-05-2008 12:46:46  
For $7 you can get plans to build a pressure pot rig. I think the ad says 70 pages of instructions.



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