Ryan,
I too use the play sand for my aggressive blasting. I have a TIP
pressurized sand blaster from TipTools at WWW.TIPTOOLS.COM
I use their screen sifter (my name for it). It is the perfect size to sit
on top of the sand blast unit to filter out the over sized sand. It also
fits on top of a plastic bucket so you can preprocess some sand too. I also
use the plastic buckets to store excess sand in between blasting sessions.
I also get a finer grained quartz sand for my internal engine parts. I
visited the hardware stores and found a local brand at an extremely high
price. I checked around the local cement yards and found the local source
that brings it in my the skids. It is all uniform in size and I also use it
in my small blast cabinet. Great stuff. However, I do have to filter it
after I use it one time to remove the scale and junk I have blasted off. I
get about three rounds out of each bag.
For my bigger parts, I use a screened 9 x 12 foot picnic tent. It has a
plastic cloth top and screened sides. It keeps the sun off and allows me to
control most of the wild sand. I capture the used sand on a plastic tarp.
I am able to recycle about 95% of the sand this way.
For safety, it is essential to wear a good respirator. The quartz sand bags
comes with the appropriate warnings.
Good luck.
David Edwards
1954 3100 5 Window
-----Original Message-----
From: Border, Ryan <rborder@fcxena.fc.hp.com>
To: 'oletrucks@autox.team.net' <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 5:22 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Abrasive suggestions for blaster
|Hi guys, a quick question:
| I've got a pressurized sandblaster from Harbor Freight, and a compressor
|which seems to be up to the task of driving it. But, I'm wondering if you
|all have any suggestions as to what I ought to blast with.
| Up until now, the best thing I've found is a brand of "play-sand",
|available at a local hardware store. I've found that the brand does
matter-
|the "play-sand" at the local Home Depot wasn't nearly uniform enough,
|causing all sorts of clogging problems.
| Even the best stuff I found still causes me lots of woes. Either the tip
|or the outlet valve (out of the tank) clogs very regularly. I'm lucky to
|get more that ~15s of blasting in before having to go unclog something.
|There has to be a better way.
| What do you guys use, and where do you get it?
|
|Thanks-
|Ryan.
|
|Oh yeah: my applicaions range from stripping multi-layers of paint from
body
|panels to cleaning rust off of heavy metal.
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