Tools

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

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.  



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.



Chuck, come by town some time and I'll show you Dad's shop.  You will love it!  



BH









 --- On Wed 06/28, Dan Bubb < jdbubb@verizon.net > wrote:

From: Dan Bubb [mailto: jdbubb@verizon.net]

To: sukchew@cox.net, scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:36:45 -0400

Subject: Re: Tools



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 blue<br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing list<br>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing list<br>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br>

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