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[Jase]

Thinking about purchasing a desktop cabinet and extraction system just to speed up cleaning of parts and removing rust. Anyone purchased from these guys?

 

https://www.sandblasters.co.uk/

 

 

Thanks

[nicklouse]

I have one of these.

https://www.ebay.co....4.m46890.l49292

[Jase]

I like the idea of this one with the extraction fitted to te back:

 

https://www.sandblas...binet-413-p.asp

 

Seems large enough to get most parts into.

[nicklouse]

Slightly bigger than mine which also has vent/extraction ports. And is basically the same but costs less.

[Jase]

Slightly bigger than mine which also has vent/extraction ports. And is basically the same but costs less.

Which media do you use the most?

[nicklouse]

I bought some that was on sale. I have also used sand. All I will say is the means of sucking up the media is not good and the media keeps on needing to be moved about.

[MaximMini]

Hi guys,

I'm a proud owner of one of those 220l cabinets to be found on eBay. This one is just big enough for blasting a 12“ wheel. The key is to modify the cabinet for better media flow, lightning and evacuation (YouTube is your friend here) and a very big compressor (there is no such thing as too big). As for media, I'm using glass pearls and consequently follow a sequence from aluminium parts with fine surface finish to cleaning aluminium parts and finally the odd steel parts before changing the media completely. The finish of the surfaces will change a lot when the glass pearls are in use for some time and you do not want to ever use media which has been used for steel parts for aluminium parts afterwards.

Should I get the chance to purchase a second cabinet, I will do so and then use it for a different media since the change of media is a messy job.

[alex-95]

I have one very similar to nicks, I wouldn't bother with it unless you haven't got a lot to do. I've modified mine to improve it and still not perfect. The screen doesn't seal very well, i made a steel border to go around it to make it more rigid. It fills with dust pretty quickly, I've now got a vacuum to suck the dust out and the media doesn't fall down to the bottom so have made the 'slopes' steeper and more to a point. 

 

Don't use actual sand as it contains silica and can cause silicosis!

[alex-95]

Double post

Edited by alex-95, 03 January 2021 - 06:46 PM.

[sonscar]

I use Jblast supafine in my pressure pot using tarpaulins to contain some of the mess.Smaller items I immerse in citric acid,little mess but not so quick.Steve..

[CK's mini]

I have the clarke desktop blaster and fitted a cyclonic filter to the side of it. I got the filter from ebay £10.99 and some 32mm overflow fittings from toolstation. Just connect it to a vacuum then. Does a brilliant job.

 

https://imgur.com/a/wbFdwgg