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To paint or not to paint blast cabinet?

pendragon1998

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I am thinking about spray painting the interior of my new blast cabinet white, to help with maximizing brightness inside. I am second guessing my plan because I started thinking maybe the paint will get blasted off and then contaminate my media. Am I right or wrong about that?
 
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I painted the interior of my cabinet white, it seemed to helped a lot. Yes it does eventually wear away, just repaint when needed.
 
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pendragon1998

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what about better lighting?

I have 6000 lumens worth of LED floodlights in the feont corners (a 50W and a 30W flood). The lighting is pretty good, but it could stand to be improved a bit more. I get some shadows from the gloves. I might add a strip across the front and rear top, but it's workable for now.

So yesterday I popped my cabinet's cherry and blasted for about an hour, hour and a half. Here is the before and after. The white paint immediately got blasted anywhere the overspray hit, but much of the white doesn't get sprayed, so overall, even though it looks kind of bad now, the white still improves the brightness. I did zero prep for the paint, and just sprayed right over the red, so that may have contributed to the durability.

I don't know if the white looks brighter than the red on my photos, but that's due to the camera. It is a lot brighter than the red in person.
 

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