RE: Media blaster troubleshooting

[Jeff Adams <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My window is plexiglass and it does get scratched up quilcky. Once in a 
while I get my buffer and paint polishing compound after it and that 
makes a big difference.

Steve Mick wrote:
> 
>  A friend of mine bought one of those Harbor Freight cheaper cabinets.  
>  He 
> made the mistake of putting it together without sealing the seans--media 
> all 
> over the place. .
>  Steve , which modle do you have and are parts like gloves and carbide 
>  tips 
> available for it? Doesn't the viewing window get pitted up soon?  I 
> would 
> like to have one myself.........................MO
> 
> {Steve Mick}
> http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/mick64.html
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Butch Edison" <waedison@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Media blaster troubleshooting
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Steve, I did not know there were carbide tips. Where do you get 
> yours? I'm going to go back to zero with this cabinet and set it up 
> again, 
> all fresh, new gun tip, new media, etc., and will use the tips you all 
> are 
> providing on the forum to see what works best for me.
> 
> 
> 
> While the blaster did not work well with the gun that came with the 
> cabinet, 
> it did work great for awhile with the gun off my $50.00 outdoor Sears 
> blaster that uses builders sand. I think now that the ceramic tip in 
> that 
> gun is shot.
> 
> 
> 
> One thing I'm thinking, because I only have been "trying" to use my 
> cabinet 
> once a month or so that moisture is probably an issue with mine. I'm 
> going 
> to get one of the water collectors like we use in boats and rvs around 
> here 
> in the winter and put one them in the cabinet, see if it collects any 
> water 
> and if that changes performance.
> 
> 
> 
> Because I'm running out of time to get this car ready for Hot August 
> Nights 
> in Reno, I took the wheels to a professional powder coating shop for 
> media 
> blasting yesterday. He said he never uses these types of cabinets that 
> count 
> on gravity feed, that even his small portables are such that the media 
> is in 
> a pressurized tank and the media is discharged under pressure, which he 
> finds more reliable, I have not looked at any of those set ups.
> 
> 
> 
> Liked that...... "like a white shirt in a bar fight". :)
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks/Butch/Ferndale, WA
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven Charette" <stevec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:50:50 AM
> Subject: RE: Media blaster troubleshooting
> 
> 
> Butch,
> We run our Harbor Freight blasting cabinet 8-10 hours a day 4-6 days
> a month. As others have mentioned, moisture can be a problem. We've also
> discovered that having too much abrasive in the hopper prevents the 
> siphon
> hose from pulling well especially with a coarse media.
> 
> You may also want to look into a carbide tip if you don't have one
> already - aluminum oxide is great but ceramic nozzles last like a white
> shirt in a bar fight...
> 
> 
> SC
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Butch Edison [mailto:waedison@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:30 PM
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Media blaster troubleshooting
> 
> 
> I bought a Northern Tool Media blast cabinet some months ago. It is way
> smarter than me and it hurts to say you've been outsmarted by sand and
> compressed air!. I have a large snap-on 7 HP 175 PSI 80 gallon 
> compressor so
> think I should have enough air. I'm trying to use 70 grit aluminum oxide 
> to
> clean some wheels. The thing barely draws for awhile, then it will work 
> like
> magic for a couple of minutes, then back to nothing or next to nothing. 
> I've
> tried changing guns, running the media pickup tube in and out of the 
> media.
> Nothing seems to work for more than a couple of minutes. I have an air 
> dryer
> in line with the media cabinet.
> 
> If you've had some lessons learned with these things, please tell me 
> what
> you've found out through your use. This thing could easily end up in the
> scrap yard, but I think it's probably something I'm just not 
> understanding
> about how to use it.
> 
> Thanks for any help. /Butch/ Ferndale, WA
> 
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Jeff Adams
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