Bubba's $5 blasting cabinet
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Bubba's $5 blasting cabinet
Here are a couple of pix of my $5 blasting cabinet. I was doing the thrift store cruise for a powder coating oven (found one, $10 and a convection oven twice the size of a toaster oven $8[removed the fan])... Anyway saw an old stereo cabinet in the corner and thought, hmmmmmm, if i put it on its back and cut a couple of holes in it for arms, shop vac, air, etc, It works great, glass is starting to get a little cloudy but should make it to the "end" of the restoration.
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99% sure it's tempered, had a similar one years ago and broke one of the doors into a zillion little pieces. Only have a few parts left to do so i don't think i'll be removing all that much material from the glass, barely noticeable now after an entire weekend of blasting. Still wear the safety gear too.
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I like it. Recycling at its best.
Where's your media hopper: inside or outside the box? Is the dust control ok? (I keep telling myself to wear the mask -> every <- time I start squirting aluminum oxide: i'm getting better.)
How about a light? Didn't see one but may just be the angle.
Where's your media hopper: inside or outside the box? Is the dust control ok? (I keep telling myself to wear the mask -> every <- time I start squirting aluminum oxide: i'm getting better.)
How about a light? Didn't see one but may just be the angle.
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I like it. Recycling at its best.
Where's your media hopper: inside or outside the box? Is the dust control ok? (I keep telling myself to wear the mask -> every <- time I start squirting aluminum oxide: i'm getting better.)
How about a light? Didn't see one but may just be the angle.
Where's your media hopper: inside or outside the box? Is the dust control ok? (I keep telling myself to wear the mask -> every <- time I start squirting aluminum oxide: i'm getting better.)
How about a light? Didn't see one but may just be the angle.
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Those white circles are actually cutouts with 'sleeves' that have elastic on the ends. I got a couple from the fiberglass store to keep the fiberglass dust off my arms while sanding an earlier project. I cut one in half and taped the open end to the box. I just slide my hands in with some gloves and it keep the dust inside the box to get sucked out by the shop vac.
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Good job...should work for most of the parts. I sprung for the blasting cabinet from Harbor Freight...saved me a lot of money. I had already spent over $400 taking parts to a shop for sand blasting and now that I'm doing my own I realize how poorly a job they had been doing. A blasting cabinet pays for itself when doing a restoration.
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What I do with my cabinet is use masking tape to hold overheard projector sheets to the inside of the window.
When it gets so bad I cannot see through it I just peel it back and put a new one one and then theres 100% visability again.
I do the same thing with a faceshield when I'm using my portable blaster.
Works a treat and its extremely cheap.
A also wear the same mask I wear when I'm painting as the dust doesnt feel too good in your chest!
As mentioned before - these things pay for themselves so quickly and when you pay for it to be done they dont care about the quality. VERY good investment when restoring a car.
When it gets so bad I cannot see through it I just peel it back and put a new one one and then theres 100% visability again.
I do the same thing with a faceshield when I'm using my portable blaster.
Works a treat and its extremely cheap.
A also wear the same mask I wear when I'm painting as the dust doesnt feel too good in your chest!
As mentioned before - these things pay for themselves so quickly and when you pay for it to be done they dont care about the quality. VERY good investment when restoring a car.
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What I do with my cabinet is use masking tape to hold overheard projector sheets to the inside of the window.
When it gets so bad I cannot see through it I just peel it back and put a new one one and then theres 100% visability again.
I do the same thing with a faceshield when I'm using my portable blaster.
Works a treat and its extremely cheap.
A also wear the same mask I wear when I'm painting as the dust doesnt feel too good in your chest!
As mentioned before - these things pay for themselves so quickly and when you pay for it to be done they dont care about the quality. VERY good investment when restoring a car.
When it gets so bad I cannot see through it I just peel it back and put a new one one and then theres 100% visability again.
I do the same thing with a faceshield when I'm using my portable blaster.
Works a treat and its extremely cheap.
A also wear the same mask I wear when I'm painting as the dust doesnt feel too good in your chest!
As mentioned before - these things pay for themselves so quickly and when you pay for it to be done they dont care about the quality. VERY good investment when restoring a car.