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DIY Home Built Vapor Blasting/ Honing Cabinet , wetblasting


duffymahoney

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I use a high pressure cleaner.. with a special part on top that has a special nozzle and a hoze that suckes sand or glass or any ...   I do this on my drive, only need a plastic (big) sheet..  works very well..

If i used sand i let it dry and i can brush it all away after a few days.. haha..  Glass is also not difficult, a day and you can brush it together and filter and use again..

 

Before..

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after..

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after a ground and silver paint..

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ready..

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4 on a row..

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looks a mess but is easy to clean.. just a sheet of (garden)pond-rubber.. for not damaging the drive..  The bag of glass is behind the fence. not to get wet..  Very important that it stay's dry otherwise the sucktion stops..

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The high pressure pump is around 130 bar.. but the nozzle hole of the sandblaster is bigger so i think the pressure is around 30-40 bar when it hits the surface of the alu- wheels.

 

 

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1 hour ago, dutchzcarguy said:

looks a mess but is easy to clean.. just a sheet of (garden)pond-rubber.. for not damaging the drive

It really does look like a mess.  I'm surprised that you've been able to clean the dirty stuff off the uncovered part of your drive without any residual staining.

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It's glass realy fine, and black.. after a day drying you can swipe it up and use again..   You see the driveway under those 4 wheels.??. that pic is made after the glass blasting.. no extra cleaning was neccessary 

What count's is the end result.. I use that machine only this way ones a year or so.. you can't have all the tools.. :mellow:

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I won’t do any steel stuff. 

 

I got got all the fittings in the mail. Should work awesome. I went quick marine disconnects partial because I had some laying around and they are cheap. I like the  fact that I can take the whole thing apart and put all the parts in the cabinet for storage. 

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I ended up using more of the water tight cord connectors, I also used a shower drain to make the vent pipe. Stock vent was just a aluminum cap with holes. This vent is just like vapor honing uses. 

 

Trying to dial in how much air to use. Might get to try tomorrow. I think I’m done for now. 

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