[Shop-talk] Blasting media

[Doug Braun]

Is there a Tractor Supply store near you?  I got a barrel of beads there, and
they work OK for me.  They also carry Black Beauty, which I like a lot, but it
will get the inside of your blast cabinet a bit messy.

I made a blast cabinet
3 years ago, and it has been EXTREMELY useful!

I also have Eastwood's soda
blasting adapter kit installed on my
generic Chinese pressure blaster.  Soda
blasting is great.  You can do it while wearing a bathing suit!  The only
downsides are that the media is pricey, and it does not remove rust at all.
Doug

--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Karl Vacek <kvacek at ameritech.net> wrote:

> From:
Karl Vacek <kvacek at ameritech.net>
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Blasting media
>
To: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>, shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Date: Friday,
May 1, 2009, 3:39 PM
> The package says #8 Glass
> Beads.  Under a magnifying
glass, there are certainly
> some beads in there, and lots of fines - of
course, I happen
> to have grabbed a HF magniflying glass too.
> 
> I'd guess
it's maybe 20% beads - sort of what I'd expect to
> see after lots of
blasting.  Or maybe what you might
> expect from fresh HF glass beads  :-(
>
> Glass beads are what I've almost always used in the past,
> except before I
knew better than to use 100-grit silica sand
> (and that was open blasting).
What do you use for rust and
> paint ?  Aluminum oxide ?  Black Beauty slag ?
> 
> Karl