On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Martin Scarr wrote:
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> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, John T. Blair wrote:
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> > > Sooo... anyone know where I can pick up a small pressure blasting gun?
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> > There's no such thing. A pressure blaster is usually a large heavy steel
> > canister that stores the sand and is pressurized by the compressor. It's
> > not just the gun as with paint spray guns.
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> I went and did some sandblasting at a place where you can rent a blast
> cabinet, and blast by the hour. In addition to their siphon feed cabinet,
> they also had a pressure blaster made from a 30" piece of 4" Schedule 40
> ABS plumbing pipe. The top (loading end) had a cleanout adapter glued to
> the end, which is an adapter with a screw-in pipe plug. It also had a
> hose fitting in the side of the adapter to pressurize the pipe. The bottom
> end (feed end) had a cap glued to the pipe, and a hose fitting for the
> sand outlet. It worked quite well. It ran with 100 psi.
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> Martin Scarr
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If I'm reading this right, it's a pipe filled with sand,correct?
How much sand did they put in it?
...Art
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