Media Blasting

JimKueneman

JimKueneman

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Question for those who have experience. I have been blasting with my 11CFM at 90 PSI 60 gal compressor for my last couple restorations. I am looking at renting a diesel compressor which is 110 CFM for the next car I am not going to restore. It costs almost $200 for a 24 hour rental. Will 10x more CFM make a big enough difference that I could get most of my heavy blasting done in a day or two? With what I have it was typically a week worth of pecking away, especially in pitted areas where I needed to get that black rust out of the pits.

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JimKueneman said:
Not blasting where that matters, this is for floorboards, underbody, axles, rust along edges, inner structures, etc.
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In that case it is definably the way to go. In fact, it will go so fast that you might see if friend has something needing blasting also to help pay the bill. Better yet get them to do the blasting and you pay the bill.
 
Is there a commercial stripping place near you? For my big blasting projects I take them to a near by town and use their 10’x5’x5’ blasting cabinet or their blasting room.
 
I would reach out to Shine to get his perspective on the situation. I believe he has a similar machine.
 
i sold my blasting rig. look into an attachment for your pressure washer that uses crushed glass. less than 50 dollars and works great.
my 185cfm rig would cut a car in half. could do a car inside and out in 16-24 hrs .
 

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To take advantage of that much more CFM you are going to have a bigger blaster or at least a much bigger tip on the one you own.
 
shine said:
i sold my blasting rig. look into an attachment for your pressure washer that uses crushed glass. less than 50 dollars and works great.
my 185cfm rig would cut a car in half. could do a car inside and out in 16-24 hrs .
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With that pressure washing attatchement I would assume the dust is no more. It must be a different mess though. I must try this out.
 
I'm curious of the finer details how the pressure washing attachment works?

Is the high pressure of the PW controlled in some way to not hurt the panels?
 
pressure and heat has nothing to do with it. the pw system works good. plus it rinses the media away. my pw is 3k lbs of pressure.
 
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