[Healeys] Air compressors, Soda blasting, etc

[Jose Vicente Vargas]

I discovered soda blasting a few years ago.... And it was the best ....
Only one down side....

You need a BIG compressor.
I tried the cheap soda blaster and you need a bigger compressor than if you
use the speed blaster. Main reason: speed blaster is by gravity the cheap soda
blaster is by suction or venturi.

I had a 6 gallon compressor and I used a few times with the speed blaster and
it worked ok, you just need to let the compressor fill the tank very often,
but it blasts the soda... With the same compressor the cheap blaster would not
even blow soda.

Now I have a 40 gallon compressor and te speed blaster works super and i once
tried the cheap blaster and it worked, but with the big compressor.

Speed blaster is 40 bucks in amazon or harbor freight and it works ok with
your 8 gallon compressor.


Jose



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On Apr 21, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Bob Johnson <bjsbj8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read the article on John Sims site re cheap soda blasting. My
> compressor is not nearly as robust as the one in the article, 2 hp on
> an 8 gallon tank and 6.0 cfm @ 40psi. It will not push a HVLP paint
> gun. Without going to a 220v, 3 phase compressor, is there much chace
> that this will work? Also tell me why the higher the pressure on a
> compressor the lower the cfm? That just seems so backward.
>
> Bob Johnson
> BJ8
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