got a bonus today...

[bell 11]

Well, I picked up my check today... and attached was a letter of accomidation! With a $250 bonus!

I have been wanting a sandblasting cabinet. I got a summit tool catalog in the mail today and noticed a cabinet on page #31. I bought it! It will be shipped out today and should be here in 2-3 business days! They are running a special today and knocking off their handling fee....

So, $216.45 shipped to my door!

Here's a link. Should (just barely) fit a Short frame WH frame in it!

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.a...15&autoview=sku

[bdanie7 0]

I've been looking at blast cabinets for awhile. You talked me into it Mine shipstoday and shows delivery in 2-3days.awsome price.just need to adapt a vacuum system.

Then I gotta explain it to the wife.

She knows I need tools for my job, I'll just tell her it was a neccessity :hide:

[Butch 194]

I spent about a month looking for a cabinet before I decided on a compact one. I wish I had bought one like you guys got. And with all the shopping around I did you guys got a great price. Excellent price. The problem I have with mine is dust build up in the cabinet limiting visibility and the media still escapes a little creating

dust everywhere. There are plenty of medias out there for all kinds of blasting and polishing. Make sure you have extra tear-offs for the window because they do get torn up. Let me know if you come up with a way to cut down the dust. I tried hooking up my shop vac to the filter and the suction was so great it actually wanted to pull the gloves off and made the door bow inward. Good luck. They

are great to have.

Butch

[refracman 167]

Being the "frugal" sort i whiped this up a couple of years ago. total cost 15 bucks for the gloves had the rest laying around. You'll really like the large cabinet, you can flip the parts around with out shutting the system down.

I also use a shop vac with the small particial bag it really helps keeping the dust down.

[Michael Bullington 5]

wow send me your guys addresses ...I know where to send all my parts now :banana: :banana:

[bell 11]

refracman, what's this small particle bag you speak of?

I read something about putting a paper filter over the filter in the shop vac.... I assume it is a bag that goes over the filter? If so, where do you get them? Thanks, JB

[refracman 167]

The small partical bag was designed for drywall dust and the likes. I picked some up at Sears but they are pricey 2@$15 but i am still on the first one and have about 100hrs of use.

I also made a deflector box( think of a maze) that the hose hooks to so its not pulling directly off the cabinet and the heavy particals dont make it to the vac.. I have to empty the box now and again.

[kpinnc 14,584]

Congrats JB!

And quite a nice job on the cabinet too Steve!

Kevin

[bell 11]

I think I can handle $15 for 200+ hours of blasting...

I like the idea of the deflector box!

Thanks for the info.

kpinnc, thanks! I guess it pays to work your azz off... :omg:

[ol550 830]

My blast cabnet came with the pulloff sheets but did not last very long.

Then I got a very fine mesh screen to put on the inside. Now just have to blow the dust off the glass and screen once in a while. The screen is close to the mesh you see in a funnel if that makes sense. Mike

[big mike 13]

Good to hear places are rewarding good employees.

Way to go Bell!

I used to work with a guy that always said"in this company bonus is two words"

You definately want the drywall bag for your shop vac.All the air that goes in the hose goes through the motor to cool it.....along with all the dust particles that pass through the filter media.And if you use silica sand or anything with silica in it there is a very good chance your inhaling free silica.......that causes silicosis....not a good thing.

[whchris 5]

Steve are those toilet flanges holding your gloves in?

[BairleaFarm 340]

Steve are those toilet flanges holding your gloves in?

Yeah they are. I didn't notice that.

[linen beige 15]

Congrats Jon! Nice to hear good news once in a while.

I use a home built water trap in line between the blast cabinet and shop vac. I built mine to use with a drywall sanding system. It works so well with drywall dust I can sand all day without even getting my glasses dusty.

In my case I took a burned out shop vac, removed the old motor, and plugged the hole. I then took a 2" pvc elbow and some pipe and fastened it to the inlet so that the air coming into the old vac was directed to the bottom of the vac. I fill the old vac about half full of water. I leave the foam filter in place in the old vac. Then I hook the hose from my new vac to the outlet (exhaust) port on the old vac. The inlet hose of the old vac is attatched to my cabinet.

In use, the air and whatever is in it is pulled through the hose into the bottom of the old vac. The air then goes up through the water, through the foam filter, and is pulled into the new vac. The water traps most of what is in the air as it goes through it. The filters in the two vacs gets the rest.

If you don't have an old shop vac sitting around you can do the same thing with just about any kind of container. You just need two connectors that will fit a shop vac hose, and enough pipe/fittings to direct one side down into the bottom of your catch container. It can be built with a drywall bucket, but larger containers work a whole lot better.

[HorseFixer 2,013]

Nice job Jon! Looks like that aught to get the job done for ya! :hide:

[Duff 206]

If you don't have an old shop vac sitting around you can do the same thing with just about any kind of container. You just need two connectors that will fit a shop vac hose, and enough pipe/fittings to direct one side down into the bottom of your catch container. It can be built with a drywall bucket, but larger containers work a whole lot better.

I think the connectors could be made with or adapted from "blast gates", available at many woodworking supply houses that sell larger power tools. They're made to work with standard shop vac hose sizes. I fabbed up the dust collectors for my table and pullover saws using these with my shop vac since I can't afford a full-blown (or would it be full sucked?) dust control system.

Duff :hide:

[COMB2 0]

Yep hook up the vac with about 2" water in the bottom and keep the filter on. Also like said before put a filter on the air inline to keep the water out of your "sand". We got 3 total. 1 at the compressor, 1 that is down the line that comes in the other room and 1 right at the blasting cabinet.

Also if you want to do big jobs here is what we do. Setting it up right now for acouple restos.

Empty out a corner of your garage ( could be hard for some of you, I seen the pics of the garages ) big enough for you your blaster and the stuff your going to work on. We line the cieling with 6mil plastic then make 2 walls out of the plastic to make an encolsed room. Then you got any size booth you need. ours is about 6x10. We use regular play sand in a pressure blaster (harbor fright $40). If you never used a pressure blaster and have alot to do I recomend buying one, About 5 times faster.

When you run out of sand you scoop it off the floor and throw it back in the blaster. We use a big funnel with a large hole screen to keep all the big chuncks of rust and what not out. We also set the booth up where there is a window in the booth. Hooked up an old blower wheel to the window and that keep the dust down.

Make sure you wear a respirator and a hood. You will have sand in ever oriface of your body though but worth it to get the blasting done so quick

[KyBlue 655]

I wouldnt recomend doing that if your using glass media, or anything other than sand.

Sand is not really a good thing to use for alot of reasons, the biggest for me, is how it profiles the metal, has a tendency to warm sheet metal, etc etc etc

You really Dont have to use anything... ours at the shop doesnt have any kind of dust collection, it gets hard to see in the cabinet sometimes, but its still useable. gotta do what you can as money allows ya know!

Dunno what Ill spend my bonus on...hopefully I'll get two this year (saftey bonus and a no lost time injury bonus) the NLTI bonus is given out via a drawing with everybodys name in the bucket.. only giving out 14 or 15 of those this year.. but hey its another 600 bucks - ontop of the 1200 dollar bonus check! :hide:

[bell 11]

I wondered about using a "pressure pot" blaster with the cabinet?

I've hear that they are much faster. Could I run the hose and gun into the cabinet and just use the "funnel" to collect all the sand? I'm sure it will be fine for the work I'm doing, as-is.... but if I'm unhappy with it, I might give the "pressure pot" a try.

I'll, most likely, be using glass beads... so I can blast aluminum.

[HorseFixer 2,013]

Jon how much did they clip you for shipping on that unit? :hide:

[KyBlue 655]

Summit is free Shipping, they do charge a handling fee...but they ran a special and waived it or something (so he said in the first post)

Come on now Duke... ya gotta get some more mail order car stuff.. the delivery guy knows my door well - delivering from Summit, Jegs, Dennis Carpenters, NPD, Jeffs' , more recently Toro, partstree, etc etc etc

[bdanie7 0]

Handling charge on mine was only 6.50.Free shipping,they said I might have it by friday.

I didn't think delivery's would move on turkey day. :hide:

[KyBlue 655]

You dont think FedEx would give drivers the day off do ya?? I worked last turkey day and last Xmas too hauling crap for Amazon.com ...

[Butch 194]

What's wrong with working holidays? I've missed Christmasses, birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids sports and more. It was part of my job. It was

expected of everyone. Many people do it. I did it from the time I was 18

until the day I retired. My wife never complained and my kids accepted it.

And to be perfectly honest there were benefits to working holidays. Last year

I got out of going to my in-laws for dinner. Now I no longer have excuses

to get out of it! :D