Nice Little Project

mymini007 · Nov 7, 2011

I have been toying with buying a shot blasting box,

The size I wanted was going to be about £1000, big enough to get some alloy wheels and body panels in.

Soooo......

I made one

And here is the proof of the pudding.

Cant really go mad on it, as I need an exhaust and the proper gloves, but looks ok I think, I need to try it on something a bit dirtier but its cleaned up the checker plate ok

jailon · Nov 8, 2011

You want to try it something dirtier... I could strip my LR down and post it to you piece by piece, you could shotblast it and post it back to me

Oldseadog · Nov 8, 2011

Good to see that you managed to fit worktops and cupboards into it before you tiled the bottom.

It's obviously bigger than it look from the outside

Would you still need an exhaust if you sand or glass bead blasted instead of using shot?

Looks good though.

OSD

mad git · Nov 8, 2011

Nice one; I made one a couple of years back, I use glass bead in mine. I have a bathroom type extractor fan hooked up to it, works a treat, they shift a large volume of air and cost bugger all.

easye1 · Nov 8, 2011

Yep, very impressed.
I used one once at a firm I worked at, used for cleaning aircraft landing gear bits prior to overhaul,
I blasted some part painted alloy wheels,
doh....
forgot the day shift would notice mettalic blue paint chips in blasting medium....
was met following night by not happy day foreman..
never liked working there anyway....lol..

mymini007 · Nov 8, 2011

Oldseadog said:
Would you still need an exhaust if you sand or glass bead blasted instead of using shot?

Looks good though.

OSD

Not sure, as I have only tried the shot at the moment, but it does create a lot of dust in the cabinet, so its more a case of seeing what you are doing.

mymini007 · Nov 8, 2011

jailon said:
You want to try it something dirtier... I could strip my LR down and post it to you piece by piece, you could shotblast it and post it back to me

Not a problem at all, I am sure we can work out a price per part

mymini007 · Nov 8, 2011

All in all its cost me about £40 to build.

Still need some more bits to finish it off though.

mymini007 · Nov 17, 2011

Have completed a bit of blasting.

And given it a coat of satin black

Difficult to see with the flash, but its looks like brand new.

Ham Salad · Nov 18, 2011

I made something similar, but using aluminium oxide, and fitted an old vacuum cleaner entering the cabinet high up so it sucked up the airborne dust but not the media on the bottom

mymini007 · Nov 18, 2011

Ham Salad said:
I made something similar, but using aluminium oxide, and fitted an old vacuum cleaner entering the cabinet high up so it sucked up the airborne dust but not the media on the bottom

I am using aluminium oxide too, I intend to do exactly that, my hoover arrived today, and some proper blasting gloves are in the post.

Nice Little Project

mymini007

New Member

jailon

Active Member

Oldseadog

Well-Known Member

mad git

New Member

easye1

Banned

mymini007

New Member

mymini007

New Member

mymini007

New Member

mymini007

New Member

Ham Salad

Active Member

mymini007

New Member

Similar threads