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12/1/2017 8:05am
12/1/2017 8:05am
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12/1/2017 11:10pm
Looking to get me a small'ish setup and figured some of you guys have them. For light personal projects is the ones sold at Harbor freight good enough for the job? As I have no experience with these type things will a normal home shop compressor work decent for these? Thanks in advance.
https://www.harborfreight.com/portable-abrasive-blaster-kit-37025.html
I have a 5 horse 60 gal compressor that is just enough to keep this thing running good, With anything less you'll have to stop and let the tank fill up.
The Shop
https://badboyblasters.com/product/gun-foot-control-and-pickup-tube/
I used Speed Bead Abrasive. http://www.tptools.com/Speed-Bead-Abrasive,352.html?b=d*8019 Works like a charm for my sickle restos. Including alum and brass (carbs). I still would like to have a vapor blaster but for the hobbiest that is out of reach.
And yes, these things are CFM hogs! Although with the small tip in it isn't too bad.
Too bad you are not closer. Would fix you up proper. I upgraded to the Largest one HF sells. It is tits...
Rock on.
Edit: Dry air is a must. Do your homework. Air should be cooled & the moisture taken out. Pics in a minute.
I did do my homework on this system, many an hour was spent in research on the interwebs. I took what I had learned & adapted to the materials I had on hand. The Sharpe 606A was used as a last line of defense, instead of the only way to remove moisture. The cooling system is the most unique aspect of my design. More on that later.
My compressor is not bolted down. It is still on the small shipping pallet. It has not walked around. If you choose to bolt or not bolt, you still need a flexible hookup to the rest of your non flexible system. If not, the oscillations of the running compressor will cause failure, usually where the pipe connects to the compressor.
Right off the compressor there is a T. Up goes the air into a 1" hydraulic (flexible) hose and bottom for a water drain. Warm compressed air enters my unique cooler. The finned pipe was designed to heat a greenhouse in conjunction with a boiler. If you are using the compressor a lot, such as in a blasting cabinet, the air gets quite warm. This finned aluminum pipe is 2". Air slows down & cooled. As the air is cooled it drops most of its water. If you notice the finned pipe in the corner where the 90 is, this is the highest point in the cooling system. Water drains both ways. Back to the compressor to a drain and forward to another T, where the bottom of this T is another drain. The top of said T, air comes out (sans H2O) and is distributed to the rest of my system.
No matter if your using your air to paint (my original use), power air tools, a media blaster, or blow up a tire, you need dry air. Otherwise you WILL run into issues.
Class dismissed.
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