I am on a mailing list for Harbor Freight. They send me sale notices for items which they are selling below their everyday low prices. On their current flyer, they have the bead blaster cabinet that I have on sale for $70. It's a metal cabinet. For that price, you couldn't even get all the parts to make it from scratch (including the time to find them). Although I don't have alot of experience with it, as long as you have a decent compressor, it seems to work fine. Go to http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/category.taf?f=displaysubcats&pricetype=S and look under blasters.
royce in SB VR Bass wrote: > > I thought if you were inquiring about possibly building one that would > > be simple enough to do but surprisingly a very quick search on Google > > didn't turn up anything on building a small inexpensive one. > > There was just such an article in Model Railroader, showing how to build both a > cabinet and the sandblasting nozzle. You can tell this was a while ago, since > it involved some simple machining. The original magazine can be obtained > directly from Kalmbach or you can get a photodopy from the NMRA library (they > charge per page). > > "Build your own sandblast system", Model Railroader, September 1977 page 68 > > http://db.kalmbach.com/catalog/catalogjump.lasso?Menu=backissues > http://www.nmra.org/library > -vance- > > Keep in mind that, before plastics, only rich people could afford to have poor > taste. > -- Don Featherstone, creator of the plastic lawn flamingo >
