Vapor Blasting Cabinet

[C-Bag]

It was 15 years ago that I did this and was always wondering why no one else talked about this procedure, no heat no warping and I just used plain sandbox sand for just a couple of dollars or so for a 40 lb. bag. and just brushed the sand when dry to the dirt around the driveway. from what I recall I just put a metal tube in a 5 gallon bucket of sand. worked perfect not problems. I tried the large pressure blaster I had, worked but was concerned about destroying the metal. I did watch a couple of videos on this now and they are a little beefier then what I had, but far a large item this seemed like a very safe way to do this without breathing in all that silica. I have good size blast cabinet maybe 2.5 x4 ft. but not big enough for this project.

Interesting it could pick up the sand by just siphon if I get your meaning. My medium size HF blast cab works on siphon and is not to my liking.

Everything has a price and there is no free lunch. I don't do big stuff and don't have room to store something huge so I see no need to go this route. But it's really interesting and caught my attention. My next jump will be to get one of the smaller HF pressure blasters ($70 on sale)and mod the bottom of my blast cab to dump into the pressure bottle. Seal back and do a run, rinse and repeat(no water. I also have a cyclone I made for filtering the dust so there is no dust hazard.