Craigslist Blast Cabinets

[DaveInHouston]

I’m a Craigslist junkie. Not a good thing. Picked up two Harbor Freight sand blast cabinets for $100. Got there and he threw in a dust collector. It appears that it’s worth more than the cabinets. Now I have a project to make one good cabinet out of the two and get it all working.

 

[Iron-Iceberg]

Bolt them together and cut a hole between them and you have a blaster for long parts.

 

[DaveInHouston]

That may actually work.

 

[Crabman]

Dave,

Good score.

If you try Iron's suggestion take care to use good gasket/sealant to contain the incipient dust these things produce.

Bruce

 

[DaveInHouston]

Thanks. I’ll get one of them working as best as I can before trying that trick. But it would be cool. They both need new gloves. One needs a new glass. The blast nozzles are pretty crappy. But I’ve got some pretty good nozzles laying around. Need a filter for the dust collector. It’s not much more than a shop vac. There are tons of modification ideas available for these things on line.

 

[RStewart]

Weld them together. Sweet.

 

[ratdoggy]

If you need parts for that
TIP Tools in Canfield has pretty much anything you need

 

[gnpenning]

Nice score.

If you don't have need for a larger size you might want to have them both setup with different media. 1 with glass beads the other with slag or soda blasting, maybe even wet blasting.

 

[4EyedTurd]

Nice score, the dust collector was worth that. I’m waiting on TPTools to open back up to get my dust collector

 

[Norcal]

While I am not a fan of HF bought a HF bead blast cabinets this one not that bad & has better lighting then most so am not going to complain, had to laugh about buying a ChiCom cabinet and Russian blast media.

 

[Phoenixl37]

I agree with Ratdoggy that TP Tools in Canfield, Ohio has a huge selection of sand blasting equipment.

 

[ZRX61]

Technically you only need one pair of gloves once they are bolted/welded together. Put the left glove in the right side hole on the right cabinet, & put the right glove in the left side hole in the right cabinet & then block off the two outer holes.

 

[DaveInHouston]

I like it.