what is the best multi-purpose media for a blast cabinet? Using it for hardware and smaller car parts.
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Best multi-purpose media for blast cabinet
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I use aluminum oxide a lot for general purpose blasting. I really like silicon carbide for speed and low dust but it eats up nozzles fast - even pricey silicon carbide nozzles. Don't be tempted to buy the glass beads that Harbor Freight and a couple of other cheapy tool places sell. Its so dusty you can't even see when its new.
Bull,
I've used this stuff for the last 15 years, works great.
It's called Scat Magic:
Skat Magic Abrasive - TP Tools & Equipment
Before that I used glass bead, aluminum oxide, etc
-Stumbaugh
I've used this stuff for the last 15 years, works great.
It's called Scat Magic:
Skat Magic Abrasive - TP Tools & Equipment
Before that I used glass bead, aluminum oxide, etc
-Stumbaugh
TP Tools is the bomb.
If you don't have a blast cabinet with built in dust collection, just take a shop vac and use that, if you put a dryer exhaust vent in the wall of your garage you can take a second shop vac hose and run it out the wall. This way even if the filter in the shop vac is not hepa, the dust is the exhaust of the shop vac is going outside.
I also put a t fitting in the air line that goes to the gun in the blast cabinet and put an air blow gun on that so I could have an air gun inside the cabinet. It's great for back flushing clogs in the gun suction hose, dusting off parts and most of all dusting off the window on the inside of the cabinet. It also agitates the media and with the shop van running sucks the dust out so that when you open the door you don't have dust bellowing out.
I also put a t fitting in the air line that goes to the gun in the blast cabinet and put an air blow gun on that so I could have an air gun inside the cabinet. It's great for back flushing clogs in the gun suction hose, dusting off parts and most of all dusting off the window on the inside of the cabinet. It also agitates the media and with the shop van running sucks the dust out so that when you open the door you don't have dust bellowing out.
