Some more pics. yes they are in!

[stinky]

on going sand blaster project

 

[ChucksCrib]

Looks nice and clean

 

[nova65ss]

Yeah almost invisible

 

[jpkemp]

How did ya get that smooth???

 

[stioc]

Where did you buy the Carrera GT poster on the back wall ?

 

[stinky]

Well thankyou thankyou guys! I did try to post more pictures but the thread keeps saying it cant take them beause of the size of the file.

 

[Luckydevil]

Try opening them in windows paint and then just save them. That usually cuts the file size in half.

 

[ChucksCrib]

Hello..............Earth to Stinky.....................Earth to Stinky


Unearth that cover and give us the skinny on it

 

[nova65ss]

Yeah what do you have under there? Mustang maybe?

 

[gerry]

Got a couple of suggestions......Grit will build up along the inside edge of your door and fall to the floor every time you open it. Make a pan under the door to catch it or better yet, weld a piece of angle along the bottom inside edge of the door so any grit that lands there will slide back into the box. 2-Coat the backside of the inside with rubber your cabibnent with rubber. Grit will eat through the plywood, causing splinters and chips to mix with your grit and plug up you gun. 3-Get lot's of light inside the box. One of mine has a florencent fixture above glass accross the top. The other started life with a floodlight inside but it did not last long. Grit gets in the bulb socket and eats it away. It now uses a flourencent trouble light instead. 3-Gotta have a dust collection system. Shop vacs will have a life of about a month because the grit gets so fine that it passes through the filter and into the motor. Shopvacs use the filtered air flow to cool the motor, so it pulls all the grit right through the bearings. You need a "By-Pass" type of vacumm cleaner motor available from Grainger. Or a dust collection system from TIP. When you start using your blaster, get a doormat to throw inside to work on, one of the old matts made up of tires cut into strips and wired together. This will extend the life of the grill tenfold. Believe it or not, 90% of your blasting will be in one small area in the center of your view. Your grill will be eat up here first and need replacing within a year or two. What kind of grit are you planning to use? I use 60 grit aluminum oxid in one of my boxes and glass beads in the other. The alox is what you want for paint prep, glass beads for general clean up of aluminum and brass

 

[gerry]

One more thing-Hows the paint on your car? Grit from your blaster will get all over it and into your car cover. You will not notice until you damage the car's paint. The blaster needs to be well away from anything sensitive to grit scratching the paint. No matter how hard you try, you cannot keep all the grit inside the blaster. The dust gets so fine that it finds a way to get out and will settle on everything in your shop.

 

[stinky]

Ill weld a splash guard on the bottom of the door. On the inside I may just screw some some thin sheet metal to the hi hit spots.Lights, vac , window, and gloves
will come from tiptools. Its not to bad and 90% of it was a freeeebeee!!

 

[stinky]

Im going to weld a splash guard to the door. On the in side I may just screw some sheet metal to the hi hit spots. Light, vac , gloves will come from tiptools.
90% of this project has bin free!

 

[Darren M.]

One more tip. Get a good respirator too. Just my experience but I've had enough days/nights of coughing sandy lungs.