I few months ago I bought a media blaster from Harbor Freight and was going to use it with my bead blast cabinet. Well the design of the cabinet turned into a siphon system so up until now I haven't needed the blaster so it has sat untested.
Now that I'm cleaning the underside of the cab and also some body areas that are pretty inaccessible for sanding, I decided to get some blast media and put it to work. I also needed some more glass beads for the cabinet. I did a little searching and found a place here in Portland that specializes in blast media and has many types and grits for what seems to be great prices. It's called Kleen Blast Abrasives. I got 100lbs of #50 crushed glass (brite blast) for $19 and 50lbs of #8 glass beads for $23.
I was hoping to get some good enough weather today to wheel the cab into the driveway and do some blasting but this good old Oregon springtime weather had other ideas. You don't know what you're going to get from one minute to the next. Wind, rain, showers, sun breaks, and on and on with numerous names for varying degrees of rain. It turned out to be nice enough this afternoon that I could have done some but I just didn't trust it. It kept looking like it was going to rain just to f%&#k with me.
Well, I bagged the idea but since I had the blaster loaded with my new media I had to give it a small try just to see. You know how it is.
I like the crushed glass and it works good. Here's a poor pic of a small sample of what it does.
More tomorrow if the weather lets me. Word is out that it's supposed to be nice.
05-31-2013, 01:22 AM
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