Have you used a sand blaster at home?

[master6]

I am doing some restoration at home, and am considering buying a sand blaster, such as the Toolex 592541 model. Ebay has many of these machines, or similar, for around $200. They seem to be designated as 10 gallon .

Has anyone used one of these jobs?

How do they perform?

 

[garth7777]

yeah i have one i got it from super cheap, goes well , uses a fair bit of air though
and you would not do a whole car at all , good for parts,,cleaning pitted rust and hard to get to place saves a lot of time
and brings stuff up like new i have done alloy mags as well with it ther only about $25 just run acouple of feet of plastic tube from gun into a bucket of sand $2 from landscape supplies

garth

 

[hsv304v8]

I brought a cheap sca one it just uses there sand so quickly. Does beach sand work ?

 

[garth7777]

yeah should work, give it a try i use the fine white sand, any sand you use just sift it through a piece of shade cloth so there is no crap in it to block the gun if you work on a tarp most of the sand will fall on the tarp so you can just sift it and use it again

garth

 

[Guzzoline addict]

NEVER USE NORMAL SAND ! Only use garnet sand ,if you use beach sand you can get Silicosis. Silicosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[hi_ryder]

dont think it matters what media your using if its in blast cabinet. if your not breathing it in you cant get it. also outside blasting with no PPE is a bad idea. i wouldnt wanna breath in garnet dust mixed with go knows what...