Most people have heard of sand blasting a process used for cleaning parts by spraying a high pressure air and sand mixture.
Diy vapor blasting cabinet. Why you shouldn t use a diy blast cabinet. These cabinets appear to work just as well as professional quality sandblasting cabinets produced by industrial equipment manufacturers. We ve seen people create diy blast cabinets out of all sorts of strange materials. The vapor king is a new concept wet blast cabinet.
I built this vapor blaster at home using readily available parts over a week or so after work. Diy homemade vapor honing blast cabinet secret hack tip thx guys duration. Diy wet media blast cabinet. So if you would like to build your own cabinet i have made plans that anyone can follow and finally have vapor blasting available for your projects.
The water cools the impact of of the abrasive eliminating frictional heat reducing surface warping and stripping coatings 10 times faster than traditional dry blast cabinets. At this speed the sand becomes abrasive. The basics of vapor blasting is a glass slurry mix ratio unknown as of yet of water and 170 325 glass bead tiny beads pumped in circulation through a gun that has compressed air attached to push the slurry at high speeds. Vapor blasting involves a mix of water and abrasive media.
Second on our list is how long the typical homemade blast cabinet lasts. Blast cabinets how to select blasting media duration. Diy plans plans include a how to video wiring schematic and part list with links to products needed for the build. Justin s trikes 3 434 views.
This can be attributed to the materials that these homebrew sandblast boxes are constructed from.