aluminum intake cosmetics (Sand Blasting)

[Ken Kelly]

Let me second Jim's comment. Keep the sand Dry! I had a lot
of problems with my pressurized sandblaster clogging. It was
caused by moisture in the compressed air. I had a water trap
on the input to the sandblaster, but it didn't work in the
humid northeast summers. I moved the compressor to my
basement, and put 30 feet of copper tubing looped through my
Basement (usually 10 degrees cooler than the outside temp).
My water seperator really started to fill up, and my
sandblaster stopped clogging. Cooling the air really helped
seperate the water, and gave me dryer air.

		Ken

Jim Davies wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Pedro Haynes wrote:
> 
> >
> > Once i found a diagram of a sand blaster that you can build from an old
> > propane tank. If I am lucky enough to find it I will post the site.
> >
> A sandblast cabinet can be made from plywood, K3 board etc and will last a
> long time if you do not sandblast the cabinet directly. Sears used to sell
> a cheapo sandblaster that can be easily converted to use in the cabinet.
> These units came with steel nozzles, but ceramic were available from Sears
> for a reasonable  price [this was a few years ago...] Cheap, but
> effective... Sand is pretty cheap by the sack. I usually used 20-30 for
> sheet metal, cast iron or whatever. Glass beads are a lot more money and
> often are a waste of time IMO. When the sand gets dirty, rounded off, etc
> it stops working. At the price of sand, you can afford to dump it. Keep
> the sand dry...