Sandblast cabinet tips/ideas/plans

Charley Davidson said:
So I've came up with (What I think) is a perfect plan for a homemade sandblast cabinet, Benny & I did a little horse trading and I'm gonna end up with a Mazda B2000 truck cab with all of the glass in it and both doors. All I'll have to do is make the bottom chute & a frame/base to hold it and roll it around.
Should be plenty big enough for about anything I would need it for, plus it could be used from front or rear as suggested earlier. If I need to do something really long I can roll down the windows.
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It'll be fine as long as you paint it orange.
 
Charley Davidson said:
If you do you better not butcher it into a sandblast cabinet ..... But if you ever find 2 of them you could cut them right behind the drivers dore and weld them back to back & have the coolest 2 way car ever
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I did see where a guy used the rear portion of an old VW van to make a sandblast cabinet
 
12bolts said:
Avoid sand like the plague. There are any number of suitable blasting medias out there that are cheap enough. Silicosis will kill you

Cheers Phil
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There are problems with all the different media once they get pounded to fine dust levels :dunno:

You just have to practice the best safety you can. Dust wise in my shop it could be aluminum polishing dust from a cylinder head, sanding down a dental chair for repaint, grinding stellite valve tips, or the woodshop we keep upstairs. Not to mention all the various chemicals/smoke/coolant mist in the air depending on what is being done at the time.

I am installing a pair of 9700CFM exhaust fans in my shop, I had 9000 total CFM in my last shop so doubling that will be sweet. They are not cheap but well worth it.
 
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