Anyone have experience with a hand-held sand blaster?

[Dasfinc]

Once I pull the motor out of the Ranger, I plan on also pulling the bed and cleaning and re-coating the frame the best I can so it lasts for the forseeable... ever.

The last time I did this, I use a wire wheel sanding pads on my angle grinder and drill, which was horrific for tight areas.

Looking around online, I'm curious about the 'portable' pneumatic sandblasters, and if that would better serve this purpose?

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[taws697]

Also curious about these. I want to buy one, but my compressor doesn't put out the scfm.

 

[cap42]

Save yourself the headache and send it out for blasting.

I have used several pot and cabinet blasters, these are only about 20% of what you need. The other 80% is the air compressor. I have a 14cfm @90 psi compressor and it can barely keep up with something like the job your looking to do. The compressor would need to rest too long for it to be effective unless your going to do a little bit each day. You would also need a good water separator to keep the media from getting soaked.

It may be faster to wire wheel it

 

[Dasfinc]

Save yourself the headache and send it out for blasting.

I have used several pot and cabinet blasters, these are only about 20% of what you need. The other 80% is the air compressor. I have a 14cfm @90 psi compressor and it can barely keep up with something like the job your looking to do. The compressor would need to rest too long for it to be effective unless your going to do a little bit each day. You would also need a good water separator to keep the media from getting soaked.

It may be faster to wire wheel it

how many doll-hairs would it cost to get something like that done?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

id say a couple hundo. call and ask for a quote, should be able to get one over the tellie

 

[10sec]

They have mobile blasters too, so if you get everything off they can come by and blast it in the driveway.

 

[Rent Free]

ive used the hand held soda blaster and it worked great. i suppose it would handle sand or black blast media also.

edit have 220v 30 gallon compressor so power and air wasnt an issue.