Smaller sandblast cabinet recommendations

[signcrafter]

I'm looking at picking up either a bench top or small floor model blast cabinet for doing things like brake calipers and other small stuff like that. I have a alc pressure pot sandblasted but that's for outside use only. Is the harbor freight models any good for the occasional little stuff like brake calipers? Think their floor standing one is only like 150 bucks. Dont really want to spend too much more then that since it wont get a ton of use. But also dont want to waste 150 bucks if it doesnt work decent. I'll search for a used one also but usually dont see many for sale.

 

[rsanter]

You know you could build a plywood box with a door and a glass window.

Blasting small stuff won’t use that much media so you could then pull the media out and recycle it back into the pressure pot blaster when done

 

[Muggzy]

I built this for less than $50 and it'll do a rotor with no trouble.
I'm using an $8 bag of coal grit from Tractor supply. Works great!

https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Sand-Blaster-50-in-an-hour/

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[Benw455]

www.tptools.com

**** Blast cabinet I bought one and used it for years and then bought a bigger one. They are quality tools and they stock replacement parts.

 

[txvwnut]

The harbor freight cabinet is actually a decent cab for the money, especially if you gotta coupon. Well it a decent cab after you toss the gun and put TP Tools gun in it. Been using mine for 5 years and it’s held up well. I’ll blast anything that will fit through the door, cylinder heads, seat frames. The bottoms anyway the backs are too large. It’s showing it use and abuse but still contains the media. I did put the dust collector that HF sells on it and that too is decent, actually good except it’s noisy as hell.

 

[Sleeper]

I picked up a used Snap On model YA433 cabinet a few years ago and I love it. It's very compact and solidly built, and I like that it has a built in light and integrated dust filter bag. It's big enough for small parts up to about intake/exhaust manifold size but it takes up very little room in the shop. Mine came with a stand but the bench top version is small enough that it can be stored under a bench or on a shelf when not in use.
I've seen them come up occasionally for $100-200 and I think they are still sold new by Dee-Blast as the DBO19 so you may be able to find a deal on one of those too.