I just bought HF's 40 lb pressure blaster ($79 on sale for inside-track
members). I'm quite pleased, the quality seems very acceptable and it is
hard to beat the price. With fine grade blast sand and small nozzle, my
Sears 5hp/22gal compressor can mostly keep up with it. It is all Chinese
stuff but the fixtures seem to be of reasonable quality. I haven't had time
to use it on anything automotive, but I did sandblast a rusty antique iron
bed and the results were excellent. They usually have this blaster for
around $99 and it'd be well worth that. As a caveat, I'm not an experienced
sand blaster expert, so I've not used any other blasters to compare it with.
It took me a while to figure out the right combination of air to sand, but
once I did it was very easy to use and didn't use all that much sand (of
course I went through a 100 lb bag before I figured out that you don't need
very much sand but that part of the yard needed building up anyway).
Tw
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Barre,
> Matthew LCDR
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 1998 4:33 AM
> To: 'Eric J Petrevich/LRM'; 'shop-talk@autox.team.net'
> Subject: RE: Cool Tools
>
>
>
> I appreciate the report. I have been threatening for
> some time to
> load up with a big HF order and there are several items I
> wonder about the
> quality:
>
> Any thoughts on their metal bench top blast cabinet vs
> the plastic
> one. They are the same $ but the metal one is a little
> larger. I was also
> considering one of their $90 pressure pot blasters for the
> bigger jobs. I
> was wondering about the recip saw... they had it on the cover
> a few months
> ago for $39 I think. The rated amps are low so I was
> wondering about the
> power.
>
> MRB
>
>
>
>
>
> > Eric J Petrevich wrote:
> >
> >
> > Every now and then I go through the Harbor Freight and
> Northern catalog
> > and
> > buy all the "someday, I'll get those" tools.
> >
> > Well, I just got an order and I wanted to report on some findings.
> >
> > HF tools...
> >
> > Well, that was just some of the stuff in this order. If
> you guys don't
> > want to hear reports, I will not post them. But I think
> that it is a
> > great
> > way to help each other if we post good and bad of the stuff we buy.
> >
> > Note: I don't work for either company my only gain from
> this post is the
> > "warm cozy" feeling I get helping my fellow Tool Men.
> >
> > Inch
>
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