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They work OK but sandblasting is a horrible job and I guarantee you will start wishing you'd paid someone to do the job before you finish. I made one out of an old gas bottle - rides.webshots.com/album/134201693JtwxDaFar better if you spend the time making a proper cabinet. Paul H |
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I bought one a while back. It was about €40 iirc. Looked like a basic paint spraying nozzle with a tube that went into a sack of blast media. Results were mediocre, it made the most enormous mess I could imagine, and stopped working after a few days as the media had eroded the nozzle away from the inside.
It did the job I needed it to do, but like everything, I suspect more expensive one would have been better and the best overall would have been to pay a specialist to do it for me.
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1986 Panda 4x4.
1990 Metro Sport.
1999 Ford Escort estate.
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Pay someone  seriously, they are nice things to have access to if you can but you wouldnt want to spend what itd cost to set up and do the job properly. |
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Copey
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mates got a portable one and its good, but you make a RIGHT mess and you end up covered in sand! feels like you have rolled around on a beach! he also has a blasting cabinet which is MUCH better but you cant only fit in smallish bits, so no good for wheels or owt like that, but rocker covers and brackets etc etc its crackin! and you don't get messy, which is nice  |
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec
1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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I've got a home-made tent which I can get inside, or stay outside with armholes etc. Very messy as said. Also needs loads of air and is still a bit like colouring in with a felt pen, so big stuff is painfully slow. So I get as much rust/curse word gone first, and blast as little as poss. Wire brush or whatever,
Pressure pots are better, less wasteful of air vs normal suction guns, but still a 3hp comp really only feeds a 2.5mm nozzle, 3mm if lucky.
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'66 Amazon <-> '94 LS400 <-> '86 Suzuki 1135 EFE
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Pretty sure actually using sand is a bad idea, silicosis or something rings a bell. Proper blasting media/ glass beads whatever is more expensive but you can reuse it just sieve the curse word out.
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I have made myself a four foot square cabinet. I have brought some crushed garnet to use in it. I will put some pics up of it. At hte place i got the media from they said if alloys got the oringinal coating on they normally send about 80% of them away to be dipped. They said the original coating can be very hard to get off so dipping is a better way to remove it. The cabinet probably cost me about £100 to build.
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1999 micra. Puch bike and nirve chopper.
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Pay someone seriously, they are nice things to have access to if you can but you wouldnt want to spend what itd cost to set up and do the job properly. Agree 100%. It has taken me ages to strip about half the underseal of my shell. Took the car to these guys www.enviroblastuk.com/ and they did all that and more in less time it took me to clean up the empty garage! I agree its nice to have the kit yourself, but realistically, how many times / how often are you going to use it? Is the money better spent elsewhere? (sensible head on - for a change ;D) |
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Sittin' here in a hired tuxedo. Wanna see my bacon torpedo?
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