http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SANDBLASTER- ... 27bbdf8c29

thinking with the amount that I'm going to pay a sand blaster to do my work, I might get away with this, for future use..

How are you supposed to use this without loosing all the beads to not use again and making a mess?

I was thinking of going for a cabinet one, like this

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SANDBLASTING ... 45fab3d1c3

but then they are slightly to small to fit the subframes in, which is the biggest thing I'd want to blast...

Any ideas anyone?

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Bluey-1973 Clubby - 1330, high lift, big cam, 7 port madness in progress..

Gumby-1978 Minivan, British Racing Green - 1310, high lift, mild cam, enlarged porting and chamber shape with big valve head, supercharged build in ever slow progress!

You could use the first one, and build a box so you dont lose all the stuff, just an idea

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77 mini sunshine: the slow build continues
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70699

I think you will find it will blast away mate

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Bluey-1973 Clubby - 1330, high lift, big cam, 7 port madness in progress..

Gumby-1978 Minivan, British Racing Green - 1310, high lift, mild cam, enlarged porting and chamber shape with big valve head, supercharged build in ever slow progress!

Good point, i didnt think of that, then build a booth or make something out of slabs of concrete

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77 mini sunshine: the slow build continues
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70699

^^ That's what I was thinking too.

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You're only supposed to blow the BLUDDY DOORS OFF!!

Great minds think alike

My mate called google gave me this link, i just looked at the pictures cause it was too long for my attention span
http://www.ford-trucks.com/article/idx/ ... binet.html

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77 mini sunshine: the slow build continues
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70699

You do loose all your blasting media and it does make a mess. You need a cabinet or booth to contain the mess and a broom to re-claim it

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ehhhh NOOO.. sorry but this is defeating my purpose of getting it, to save money in the long run.. i wouldn't bother otherwise..

Anyone out there actually used one of these before please?

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Bluey-1973 Clubby - 1330, high lift, big cam, 7 port madness in progress..

Gumby-1978 Minivan, British Racing Green - 1310, high lift, mild cam, enlarged porting and chamber shape with big valve head, supercharged build in ever slow progress!

I've used one similar, hooked up to a heffen big compressor

It was lacklustre, and only if you stood there long enough...

It also had a reclaim system on it (fancy term for a vacuum that sucks near the outlet)
Relclaim system did sweet fiddle sticks all, still had to sweep up huge amounts of media

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You're so square
Baby I don't care

The cabinet blasters are the bomb. Great for small items. If you have a large compressor, and I mean a good high volume compressor, they work well and save hours from wirer wheeling and sanding.
If blasting anything big, don't stuff around, just it to a blasting shop.

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'72 English Van...'72 Export Moke ...63' 850...KZ 750E1...'74 P76

make a cabinet out of plywood and line it with Gal sheeting

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+1
I've used a cabinet compressor hooked up the same heffin big compressor as the portable blaster thing lockie linked
Cabinet was far superior

Wouldn't dream of doing anything bigger than a door though.. (that took a painfully long time)

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You're so square
Baby I don't care

get a trap, put the subframe on it, lift the corners

You could line the place in the black plastic they use in construction. Like the home painters do. The garnet won't have enough energy to punch through, like the rubber gloves in blasting cabinets. You can lift the plastic up to gather the garnet together for sieving (with the wife's finest colander) and reloading into the canister.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

The main thing is to make it so you are not breathing the stuff you blast off. A dust mask will last about 3 seconds.