reidy wrote:Well Trev if you use a brand new one they soon stuff up sucking the abrasive dust. Thats why you use a second hand one. But then you Einsteins out there would have thought about that hey? The other reason why i chose not to build one from second hand crap is that if they are not sealed properly you end up breathing all that shit in. You also need to fit an electric lght for obvious reasons and i'm sure we all stick to the law and not play with electricity unless we are "qualified". Then theres the issue of a hopper for the gun to collect abrasive. I don't have enough time to do my own cars let alone build something that i can buy cheaply.
But hey? we all like to fiddle
Just found it funny when you said you wouldn't muck around with second hand crap.
Sorry for not being an Einstein , like you obviously are , Trev .
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reidy wrote:Well Trev if you use a brand new one they soon stuff up sucking the abrasive dust. Thats why you use a second hand one. But then you Einsteins out there would have thought about that hey? The other reason why i chose not to build one from second hand crap is that if they are not sealed properly you end up breathing all that shit in. You also need to fit an electric lght for obvious reasons and i'm sure we all stick to the law and not play with electricity unless we are "qualified". Then theres the issue of a hopper for the gun to collect abrasive. I don't have enough time to do my own cars let alone build something that i can buy cheaply.
But hey? we all like to fiddle
Just found it funny when you said you wouldn't muck around with second hand crap.
Sorry for not being an Einstein , like you obviously are , Trev .
My old man bought the Supercheap special and it leaked instantly , the perspex/vision lasted untill the second day and it never circulated the grit well enough .
Ill be looking into building my own because it gives my brain a challenge , Just like replying to your message
Building or defending crap sandblasting cabinets is now my game
Mine wasn't a supacheap item. It cost me about $300, rims fit inside and was money well spent. I have seen ones made from mdf, they worked fine and if you want to build one great, but as i said i don't have time to put one together. If they leak and you breathe in the dust, you probably won't find out about it till it's too late.
CHOPPED wrote:i made my own sandblasting cabinet from scratch believe it or not i used mdf only because im in the cabinet making trade i did go and look at quite a few different examples and then made mine to suit me its big enough to do bike frames and even did my front susspension its been one of the best tools iv ever made and the amount of use it gets is amasing allways have people come in the shop asking if they can blast various parts ill try and post up some photos of it so dont let anyone say it cant be done its just a case of doing your research on volumes /air pressures and ect
Cool, thats what i like to hear, hows the MDF holding up to the blasting ?
no probs fcov6 the carcase of the cabinet doesnt get much abuse ie you dont really blast directly onto it only the parts your doing reguardless iv had this for 9 years and used it every week as mentioned its one of the best tools ive ever made have never rubbed down a part since so much easyer to work with a bare metal product
, like you obviously are 
, Trev 
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