Tools

[open.seas at verizon.net (Chris)]

If you want to build your own see:

http://www.ammoman.com/sandblaster/index.htm

This guy has is very skilled in a lot of areas and very resourceful.

See his '31 Chevy Hot Rod project at:

http://www.ammoman.com/chevy/index.htm

Basically a build it from scratch in a '50s style. Lots of photos.
Almost a step by step. You'll learn a lot.

If you get hung up around page 98 or so and want to go farther, let me
know and I will try to remember how to get past that point.

Chris

Brian Haygood wrote:
> My dad built a sandblasting box a long while back.  The ceramic gun
> tips wore out quickly but the better tips (tungsten?) never wore out.
> He built the whole box out of wood and it had a few problems with his
> construction, so he bought a new one from TIP.  I think he has been
> using glass in it.  Noticeably milder, and probably too mild for the
> 70 year old cast steel Model A Ford parts he works on.  About right
> for Scirocco stuff, generally.  The glass did eat through the pickup
> tube in his unit after a couple of years.  He bought a new tube but
> we decided we would just repair the next tube when it fails. It has a
> bend in the pickup tube that gets blasted away - even with glass.
> Not a big deal and he uses the thing a lot.
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> In Ohio I borrowed Brad's Harborfreight variety box.  He mentioned
> that he didn't like it much.  I concurr.  The bottom is way too
> shallow to funnel the media to the pickup tube, and it is a very
> small box.  BTW, you really need a good vacuum hooked up to your
> setup, and you will kill a shop vac in short order if you try to use
> that without a serious dust pre-filter ahead of it.  I bet one of
> those rainbow water filtering vacuum cleaners would work very well,
> but drying the media out to reuse it would be a pain, though it
> rarely needs to be done.  Dad's TIP box came with a vacuum setup that
> works well.
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> Chuck, come by town some time and I'll show you Dad's shop.  You will
> love it!
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> --- On Wed 06/28, Dan Bubb < jdbubb@verizon.net > wrote:
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> From: Dan Bubb [mailto: jdbubb@verizon.net]
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> To: sukchew@cox.net, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
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> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:36:45 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Tools
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> Sand blasting->aggressive and will remove metal. Leaves a relatively
> rough surface. Will eat out the blasting jet with use which degrades
> blasting performance.<br>Glass bead blasting-> doesn't appear to
> remove any material, leaves the surface relatively smooth, takes
> forever to remove all signs of corrosion on aluminum, very effective
> on rust, doesn't wear out the blasting jet.<br>No experience with
> soda, but glass bead are so benign (other than the fact they get into
> everything!) I never thought to use anything less
> aggressive.<br>Dan<br><br>From: "Chuck Blue"
> <sukchew@cox.net><br>Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:50
> PM<br>Subject: Tools<br><br><br>I just got my blast cabinet set up so
> I can clean parts prior to the Powder coating.<br>Has anyone used
> soda as a abrasive cleaning medium?.I like the idea of soda but I
> don't know how effective it will be.<br>  I'm also going to convert
> to LEDs for  lights.Any thoughts.<br>I think I'm afflicted with a bad
> case of PCD as are some other Roccers.I think more tools may be the
> answer. <br>ole
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