==Home Made Big SanbdBlast Cabinet===

MNAirHead · Post by **MNAirHead** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:34 pm

Hello.

I would like to build a blast cabinet for doing fenders, bumpers etc.

Has anyone done this?

My current thought is to use Slab doors fro the sides and bottom... glass windows for the access/viewing hole.

How do you manage the Hand Access holes?

Any hindsight advice or pointers?

Tim

Freq2002 · Post by **Freq2002** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:08 pm

For parts that big you're better off getting a resperator & a hood & gettin dirty. Moving larger parts like that from hand holes will be a real PITA.

If you want to localize the mess you can always set up a small enclosure with a tarp to collect the blasting media. Keeps all the sand in one place, you can walk around the part on a table or saw horses & best of all you dont have to find a place to put it all when you're not using it.

MNAirHead · Post by **MNAirHead** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:11 pm

Reason for this is I can move items to a warehouse in the winter... blasting media flying everywhere isn't really an option.

T.

Coils · Post by **Coils** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:22 am

I doubt I still got the web site but I think I got a link from this forum, so try a search.
When I went to the site a guy made a blast cabinet from plywood with a 2X3 frame, he had a chute type thing on the bottom made of plywood (but you might have to get creative for a cabinet that big, like a double chute set-up). There was a fixed piece of glass on the front and it had a door on one side, he said a little media did find it's way through the seam of the door. The gloves he bought from a company that makes blast cabinets, and if I remember right he just used a cheap gravity feed blaster he bought at sears.
Hope this gives you a general idea of a cheap home built cabinet.

Kubel Nick · Post by **Kubel Nick** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:42 am

I bought long rubber gloves (or get sand blasting gloves) and used a pipe clamp (similar to a round exahuast clamp) around a similar diameter PVC pipe to use as my hand port holes.

You'd probably want a hole where you can stick a dry vacuum hose into and some lights inside as well so you can see.

Everything else is just a normal box with a hole in the bottom and glass on top. I made my hole funnell down the middle to collect the media into a bucket that sits below my cabinet.

Rescue912 · Post by **Rescue912** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:19 am

An old chest freezer works wonders. Grab the local paper and twice a month there will be somebody who will about pay you to take one away. Rubber seals around the edges and most have locks on the doors.

Few minutes with a sawzall, pop in some glass - well, plexi ... *BAM*

Usually has a cord for that light you are gonna need in there too

MNAirHead · Post by **MNAirHead** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:00 pm

Thanks for the ideas.

T.

Coils · Post by **Coils** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:18 am

This is not the one I mention earlier but it's a start.
http://www.ford-trucks.com/article/idx/ ... binet.html

stkrmtr · Post by **stkrmtr** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:29 am

make a blasting cabinet out of the rear end of a wrecked bus. The glass is there just cut some holes. the engine compartment catches the media just weld in grated steal and make a sheetmetal funnel get a vac and siphon blaster and go- I spent 50$-SS

radiobirdman32 · Post by **radiobirdman32** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:56 am

I made my own cabinet out of an old computer cabinet. It is one of the old ones that already has a plexiglass window and dust sealed flip down door to protect the computer from dust. To protect the original plexiglass, I made a little frame on the inside of the window that takes pieces of cheap thin plexi that are easily replaced. The cabinet was already wired and on wheels. I use an old cartridge water filter element on the exhaust and long chemical gloves hose clamped on to short rings of ABS pipe. Works great although I do get some dust after the 60 mesh sand breaks down. I'll have to try the Crystalgrit. Anybody ever used walnut shells?