2 sandblasting cabinets

[tbirkey214]

Since I moved down to Texas I have really been on a tool buying spree. Last month I ran across town to go get a used bench top sandblaster and as I was headed back a guy I had been lowballing for a large trinco sanblaster fi ally responded and I ended up grabbing that one too.

My theory on building my little hobbyist shop is if it's a good deal just get it and figure it out. I plan on restoring motorcycles and fixing up older tools and was wondering if anyone out there has a larger and a smaller cabinet and thinks it worth having two. Maybe have differant media in each...ehh I dont know??

Mostly looking to be swayed into keeping it, but im also running out of room.

 

[Junkman]

I have three different-sized sandblast cabinets, and I use them all for different types of work. That was 10 years ago, and as I have aged, I no longer have the desire to put in as much hard work as I used to. Having said that, my wife is always telling me to sell the things I no longer use. I just like knowing that should I want to use one of them, they are there. After I am gone, someone else will get them, and most likely she will give them away for free. She is a minimalist, and I am just the opposite.

 

[whateg01]

The only reason I can really think I would want more than 1 is if I used different media a lot. If you have the space, nothing wrong with having multiple but I can think of other stuff that would be easier to justify than a blast cabinet

 

[finn]

I have a Skat and also a smaller Econoline.

I use different media in them. The smaller one is still big enough to glass bead intake manifolds

 

[tbirkey214]

I have three different-sized sandblast cabinets, and I use them all for different types of work. That was 10 years ago, and as I have aged, I no longer have the desire to put in as much hard work as I used to. Having said that, my wife is always telling me to sell the things I no longer use. I just like knowing that should I want to use one of them, they are there. After I am gone, someone else will get them, and most likely she will give them away for free. She is a minimalist, and I am just the opposite.

What do you use the 3 different ones for? I haven t got down to actually using mine since I just bought an air compressor, do trying to come up with a gameplan

 

[tbirkey214]

I have a Skat and also a smaller Econoline.

I use different media in them. The smaller one is still big enough to glass bead intake manifolds

What media do you use in each?

 

[finn]

What media do you use in each?

Glass beads, probably from HF in the small one, and the black coal slag (?) from Menards in the larger one. The black slag is available in a couple of grits from TSC. I also have a small, maybe four or six gallon portable siphon blaster that I use outside. The coarse grit is a little too big for that one.

 

[Steve_P]

I have two small cabinets. I use glass beads in one and 80 grit aluminum oxide in the other.

As far as usefulness, if you're not restoring old "somethings", you may almost never use it.

 

[rsanter]

I used to have two sand blasters.
one was dirty cabinet that I used just sand and one was a clean cabinet that I used glass beads or abrasive of some type.

right now if it was me I would set one up for sand and make the other one a vapor blaster

 

[whateg01]

I used to have two sand blasters.
one was dirty cabinet that I used just sand and one was a clean cabinet that I used glass beads or abrasive of some type.

right now if it was me I would set one up for sand and make the other one a vapor blaster

I hope you are using some sort of breathing protection using sand.

 

[OccupantRJ]

I have two cabinets, a medium size and a large commercial one with a filter baghouse. Glass beads in the medium one and aluminum oxide in the large one. I use them regularly in refurb work and consider them to be a focal point of my shop. I have blasted 200+ lb machine castings in mine, but it has a 1/4” thick steel perforated floor that can handle it. Between my workplace and home shop I have been pot and cabinet blasting parts for about 40 years.

 

[930dreamer]

I have 3. Clemco III is about a 36" cabinet and a Cyclo-Blast 60" wide. Cyclo-Blast needs some filter bags (32 I think). Third one is sitting outside.

 

[rsanter]

I hope you are using some sort of breathing protection using sand.

Sand blast cabinet, fully enclosed with a vacume

 

[GCS]

If you have the room, I’d keep both…

As others have stated, run two different types/grade media.