Stuart,
I built my cabinet 7 years ago after buying my compressor. It was
plagarized off of a cabinet my friend had built, but I made mine a bit more
"elegant", using 1x2" pine and 1/8" hardboard. (my friends was done with
2x4 and 1/2 plywood). It's light enough to move around my porch myself.
Cabinet area is a 2'x2'x2' cube.
Total cost? approx $50, with the blast handle (Campbell Housefield) costing
$23.
In retrospect I would've used a few more tubes of construction adhesive to
seal all the corners solid before they got dusty, so it does leak a bit of
bead. 50lbs worth in the past 7 years.
Cheers,
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Stuart MacMillan
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 7:51 PM
> To: John T. Blair
> Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Blast Cabinets
>
>
>
> John,
>
> That is a good solution, and you have a nice collection of cars too! I
> could easily justify a pressure blaster. Unfortunately I live here in
> the rain forest, and I would have to construct something more
> substantial for winter use (half the year!) Maybe one of those sheds
> from home depot . . .
>
> "John T. Blair" wrote:
> >
> > I have a small plastic cabinet (actually the larger plastic
> one) from Harbor
> > Freight, and my dad has a Snap-ON metal one. However, I can't
> get a wheel
> > in my small cabinet and I don't think one will fit in my dads.
> >
> > What I do for larger items like that is:
> >
> > 1. I purchased a pressure blaster from Harbor Freight.
> > 2. Go to the corner of my fence near my garage and tie a piece of rope
> > diagonally across the corner - about 10' on the diag or so.
> > 3. Purchased a large plastic tarp and clothes pin it to the rope to form
> > a curtain and floor (the plastic forms a large "L").
> > 4. I lay the large item I want to blast on the bottom of the "L", I also
> > put a couple of bricks on the bottom of the "L" to keep it
> from getting
> > blown around.
> > 5. Use the pressure blaster (I wear a cloth hood - from
> Northern Hydrolics)
> > and try to have the sand richocet off the item to the back
> of the "L".
> >
> > I can recycle better than 80% of my sand this way.
> >
> > John
> >
> > John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
> > Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
> >
> > 48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
> > 75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
> >
> > Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan
> > Bricklin: www.bricklin.org
>
> --
> Stuart MacMillan
> Seattle
>
> '84 Vanagon Westy (Escape vehicle)
> '65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
> '74 MGB GT (Undergoing restoration)
>
> Assisting in restoration:
> '72 MGB GT (Daughter)
> '64 MGB (Son)
>
> Parts cars:
> '68 & 73 MGB, '67 MGB GT
>
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