The Fab Shop

Now that we have constant air in the fab shop we can now use the sand blaster full-time. I can happily report it can strip an intake manifold clean in half an hour. :)

It does however need a vacuum or something to draft air through it or silica dust comes out the vents and you really don't want to be breathing that in. I bought a very nice industrial ShopVac for $20...and it promptly suicided the motor bearings (a new motor is $150 which doesn't sound too bad when a replacement vacuum in that style is $700) but we can still use it with the other ShopVac as an intermediate bin to recover medium as it gets sucked in.

Interwebs tell me to use a dust deputy with the shop vac. May want to vent the exhaust outside.

There was a consideration to use the dust extractor but adding a second switch and a port in the fab shop made things complicated.

I can donate the cost of a new motor. Just let me know the total once it's bought.

Or if its online send me a link and I can buy it direct.

By all means, add some exhaust to that, getting dust and grit everywhere sucks... but I think I have about 40 lbs of non-silica blasting media in the garage. I can drop some off at Nick's place so people are not risking silicosis.