I picked up a siphon blaster at WalMart for about $13.00, and it works great
with any kind of sand that I've tried. I think that the problems that you are
having are probably due to the compressor and not the blaster or the sand. I
followed the air compressor thread a while back and finally decided to bite
the bullet and buy a better air compressor. I bought a 30-gallon, 6HP, 150
PSI compressor from Sears for about $300.00, and I have to say I'm very
pleased with it. It runs a lot while I'm blasting, but I'm able to keep the
line pressure at 90 PSI and have had no problems.
Mark
1950 3100
Jhouse wrote:
> I just purchased a $10.00 bucket blaster from Woodworkers Warehouse. I
> could not get it to work at first. It would not pull up the sand. I then
> stuck the hose into water and it did a fine job of spraying the water
> however it did not have much pressure. I then changed the valve inside to
> the smaller orifice and this seemed to work better with the sand. However
> if I ran it at 40 lbs or 80 lbs it did the same poor job.
>
> Now for my question. I pulled sand out of our volleyball court and ran it
> through a screen 5 times until it did not catch anything else. That is the
> sand that I used. Is this sand grain to large for what I am trying to do.
> I have seen postings in the past about you guys buying 50 lbs bags of sand.
> Is this a very fine grain sand that is used and not sand box sand?
>
> Did I mention that our home sits in a sub division that was built on the
> former town sand pit. So if my sand works I have an endless FREE supply.
>
> What should I set the pressure at to use this bucket blaster. It had NO
> directions and I am just guessing on what to do.
>
> Thanks,
> NHJim
> 46 Chevy 3104
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