The best sandblaster

[swimmin' for shore]

I was looking on ebay. I even emailed one of the sellers for info., but received no answer. I thought some of you might be able to give me a better answer.<br />I have an 80 gallon air compressor. It holds well at 120 psi and does a good job of keeping up with my small sandblaster. This blaster is just a roll around bin that gravity-feeds to a hose and gun at the bottom of the tank. It's an older sears blaster, or at least the gun is. I've blasted aluminum boats and I've blasted light paint and rust from trailers with this. It works decently, using 30 grit silica. <br />I want to move to faster, though. I've been doing a lot of these little boats and trailers. I have 2 larger trailers to blast and paint now. There's a 400 dollar blaster on ebay that advertises 1 sq. ft. per minute. This would be faster than my blaster, but I know it's all relative to what you're blasting. Does anyone have any experience to add as far as what is a good buy, coverage speeds, etc...? I don't mind paying the 400 dollars. Anything more than that would be a push. However, I've sold a handful of aluminum boats and trailers, so this will pay for itself if it's significantly faster. Thanks in advance.

 

[one more cast]

Re: The best sandblaster

I have a pressure blaster made by TiP that I bought in the mid 80's(from lake wood I think,look in a hemmimg motor news book) and it works well. We had a discussion about blasters in the Non boating tech section. You might want to check that out.I bumped it up for you.

 

[swimmin' for shore]

Re: The best sandblaster

OMC, thank you for the bump. I asked dditional questions as a continuation of that thread.

 

[tommays]

Re: The best sandblaster

i have a big cabinet model that a 5 hp compressor barely keeps up unless a use a small nozzel<br /><br />BUT SPEED really depends on how many CFM the tip size will flow<br /><br />which means without a MUCH BIGGER compressor your not going to work any faster<br /><br />the biggest thing i have used is a clemco that is kind of like holding a FIREHOSE it would do a trailer as fast as you could move BUT needs about 200 CFM min <br /><br />if your going to be doing more blasting than a hobby level what you do with the spoils has become a BIG issue also <br /><br />pretty much everything you blast becomes HAZ-MAT if you bring any attention to yourself<br /><br />tommays