Brmorgan
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Everyone always talks about bead blasting their parts; well, I've always had a blasting gun (it was here when I bought the place) but I don't have a cabinet, so I've never wanted to drop the cash on a bag of beads to just blow them out all over the driveway. So for kicks today I went out on the quad with some buckets to the gravel pit a half mile away down the trail, and brought back a couple hundred pounds of nice, clean good-old-fashioned fine sand. I screened it down to where it wouldn't jam the gun up, and gave it a whirl. First I tried it on an old junker cylinder; it was surprisingly less aggressive than I thought it would be and didn't touch the metal at all, so I did my two 066 cylinders and flywheel:
They could still use a bit more time, but I think it did really well considering the cost. What a mess though without a cabinet. Sand down every nook and cranny of my clothing! I haven't tried it on Magnesium yet, but so far it seems to be fine with Aluminum. Must be fairly round-grained sand, i guess.
They could still use a bit more time, but I think it did really well considering the cost. What a mess though without a cabinet. Sand down every nook and cranny of my clothing! I haven't tried it on Magnesium yet, but so far it seems to be fine with Aluminum. Must be fairly round-grained sand, i guess.