[Spits] Sand blaster

[John T. Blair]

At 09:00 AM 1/5/2009, Grant Buss wrote:

 >What is the best way to stop or get rid of the dusty haze that blocks your
 >view when using it ??

Grant,

I assume you are talking about being able to see in a blasting cabinet.

First, you want to have a piece of plastic, usually acitate, to cover the glass
window.  The plastic protector will fog up as it gets hit by the blast media,
but is cheaper and easier to replace than the window glass.  Simply remove
the old protector and tape on a new one.

Next you should have a dust collector to pull the media dust out of the cabinet
as you blast.  A cheap dust collector can be made using a shop vac.  To collect
the dust put some water in the bottom of the shop vac and be sure that the
deflector in the canister is set to blow the dust down into the water.

You don't really need the water but if you don't use it, the dust 
will float around
in the canister and will get into the motor, and trash the bearings quickly.

So use a cheap shop vac.

You might want to read my article on media blasting:

  Introduction to Media Blasting

http://www.team.net/www/morgan/tech/blasting/mediablast.html

John


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