[Shop-talk] blast cabinet media

[David Scheidt]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Doug Braun <doug at dougbraun.com> wrote:
> On my cabinet, I added a second air hose into the
> cabinet that has a blow gun nozzle.  After blasting
> something and before opening the door, I use the
> blowgun to blow the media and dust off the workpiece
> and the door sill.  This cuts way down on the amount
> of spillage.  Highly recommended.
>
> I also built a sort of hood (from cardboard and duct
> tape) that surrounds the outlet opening.  This cuts
> down on the amount of beads that find their way into
> the shop-vac.

It occurs to me that woodworkers use dust collection equipment that
works very well for gathering dust, and which isn't based on a vacuum
cleaner.  Instead of being low-volume, high static pressure suckers,
like a shop vac is, they're high volume, low static pressure systems.
The high volume removes dust quite well, and isn't likely to suck too
many beads away...


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David Scheidt
dmscheidt at gmail.com