Sandblast cabinet enlargement

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I'm particularly interested in how you do the pickup/feed system. The little siphon tube setup that came with it works, barely. But an external valve pickup like on the bigger units I know would be better but I've not seen the details of how to make that work more consistently. More than anything this is the upgrade I'd like to do to my HFT tabletop blaster. BTW, what kind of media are you going to use

I never had a problem with the pickup tube itself, so for now I'll re-use it. My biggest problem was that the media would not flow to the pickup tube's opening, and there's no good way to funnel it without adding height to the cabinet. I'll make something up when I get that far.
I relocated the air inlet to the upper front corner and install a double swivel at either end of the flexible hose inside the cabinet. These keep the hose out of the way and prevent kinking.

As for media, I just use the black stuff from Menard's. It's cheap and works well enough.