[TheForge] Re: interesting project

Wed May 21 02:39:11 2003

Ok ur half way to the battle, you should be able to find at least a gravity
feed sand blaster, that will work with the High CFM compressor.  A pressure
feed pot would be better.

empty the pot, and clean it out as good as you can make sure there are no
debris in it, if the hose is in poor condition find a new one or better one,
else the soda will tend to jam up.  Keep the hose less than 25' if its old
and you cannot replace it.

Sift the soda through a fine screen at least 2 pieces of window screen back
to back if you don't have some really fine mesh soda tends to clump very
badly.  next you need a way to agitate the pot because it doesn't have a
steep enough bottom, this can be as simple as a person shaking it, or any
kind of a large vibrator, I have in the past taken a ratchet strap and a
concrete vibrator and strapped it to the side of the sand blaster with a
piece of rubber sandwiched in there. DONT FORGET THE RUBBER.  the concrete
vibrator will decimate the side of anything hard.  If every thing is in
working condition fire up the compressor and fine tune the valving....  I
like to have throttle valve on the compressor so I can regulate the air flow
not the pressure, and a throttle valve on the soda even if its gravity feed
to regulate the amount of soda, to much soda won't work and to little is
painstakingly annoying.

If you have any more questions I can answer

hope this helps

Sorry to be ornery about your predicament usually I can insert my foot in my
mouth before asking for all the information at hand about the circumstances
lol....

Paul Hewitt

----- Original Message -----
From: "terry l. ridder" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:17 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: interesting project

> hello;
>
> we have several ingersol-rand air compressors available. i know one is
> 300cfm and on is around 150cfm.
>
> any help would be deeply appreciated.
>
> On Tue, 20 May 2003, Paul Hewitt wrote:
>
> paul>
> paul> OK sometimes its great to get all the info, give me a hour or so and
I'll
> paul> let u know how to "make it work"  for a portable unit I am assuming
he has
> paul> some 100CFM jackhammer compressors if so I can get you enough info
to make
> paul> it work.
> paul>
> paul> Paul
> paul>
>
> --
> Terry L. Ridder ><>
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