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Re: Sandblasting?
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Posted by DL on May 01, 2004 at 18:48:03 from (216.67.186.250):
In Reply to: Sandblasting? posted by D. MAC (St. Louis, MO) on May 01, 2004 at 07:17:04:
I'm not a pro, but the first thing I'd recommend is to get MORE AIR!!! I have a 7.5 hp compressor that produces about 25 - 27 cfm and used that with a cheap siphon blaster to do some small jobs around the house. TOOK FOREVER!!! Since then, I found a gasoline powered compressor (175 CFM) and a blast pot that holds 650# of sand... I think I'm ready to blast now! As far as sand goes, we have a local distributor who sold me some silica sand @ $8.00 per hundred pounds... used that for one job and it worked well, but seemed expensive. Then, one weekend when they weren't open, I got this great idea to build something (that ultimately needed to be blasted) and since the abrasive shop wasn't open, I went down to the Home Depot and got a few bags of "play sand" at about $1.50 for 80# and blasted away. I couldn't tell the difference, seemed to work about the same as the stuff that cost 4 X the price... but, as I said in the beginning, I'M NOT A PRO!!! Next time I blast, I think I'm going to have the local concrete yard deliver about 10 yards of sand out to the place and I'll just screen & use that... I worked for a fabrication shop years ago & that's how we did it there! HTH!
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