What Would You Vapor Blast?
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- We converted the Harbor Freight Sandblasting Cabinet into a DIY vapor blasting cabinet. We'll be able to restore all our car parts for our BMW e30 and Datsun 510 project builds by using water vapor and glass bead media. We're also using a 3d printed vapor blasting gun by Victor Bared victor-bared.m...
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Looks like you gave up…
Test run 👍 I think we’re going to need a higher cfm air compressor. 4 cfm @ 60psi isn’t cutting it.
@@Itsallaboutthebuild I know the feeling wish we could all have a huge compressor👍
@@austinl75 thinking of picking up a Dewalt 60 gal 5hp compressor. Will need 220v but that should do the trick 🙌🙌🙌
Hahahah he did
My parents have a business vapor blasting with vinx and another thing but they do it on brass and the end result looks really good!
Never tried brass yet. Will have to give it a go 👍
Use a pressure blast system guys. I recommend KinetiX blast media, too
What type of air compressor do you recommend? That seems to be our current limitation…
Don't be shy... Help the boy out 😂
@@Itsallaboutthebuild That is always the problem! To sum up: depends on the nozzle size you want to use.
Rule of thumb with compressors is 1hp=~4cfm
Reciprocating compressors are only good up to about 8 HP. Anything above that, I'd recommend a rotary screw. Ingersoll-Rand, Quincy, and Kaeser all make good stuff. Newer rotary screw air compressors have lots of industrial automation widgets that can save you a lot on electricity.
@@Itsallaboutthebuild I currently use a beefed up, heavily modified 8hp gas powered recip compressor. Got it for 500 bucks from FB marketplace, beggars can't be choosers. I needed it to be portable for onsite cemetery engravings.
Word to the wise: double check available power types with the compressor you want to buy. I once got a used 460v 3 phase compressor for a jobsite that only had 240v 1 phase. 🤦♂️
Also use appropriate gauge wires and fuses. If you size fuses too small, you'll be resetting them constantly throughout the work day
@@superturkeylegs thanks, what’s the best budget friendly unit???
The gun you threw away does a better job.
😂 really???
@@Itsallaboutthebuild Yes. The air fitting it comes with is only .199 in. diameter. Replace it with a high-flow fitting (still 1/4” MPT), which has a .323 diameter, a 164% increase, and it works very well (assuming you can provide 90 psi from your compressor at the increased flow rate.
@@NMranchhand we need a stronger air compressor 🙌
@@Itsallaboutthebuild Always!!🤤
Awesome Glad I subscribed lol. Whats the new gun?
3D printed gun design from Victor Bared. Check out his TY channel 👍
Looks like the paints still there unless you only wanted to power wash the valve cover
Found that we need a higher CFM air compressor to keep going strong with paint stripping. We ended up using paint stripper and polishing some more with vapor blasting 👍
Can it remove power coat?
If you have high enough CFM maybe…
I have now gasoline miniwash (2600psi) and sandblast atachment and it works good, but uses to much sand for blasting aloy wheels. I have compresor too that haves 21cfm on 116psi with 70 galons tank. Is that any good air compresor?
@@Krunoslav09 oh nice!!! That will work very well. We need to upgrade 😁😁😁
*powder coat* ;)
@@ChiqueChiing powder is power 😁
Vapor? Vapor blasting uses dry ice. That looks like water blasting. Vapor blasting is expensive.
Vapor blasting is when you use dry media along with pressurized water. Dry ice or wet blasting is a bit different. And yea fry ice is super expensive 👍
@@Itsallaboutthebuild So, there is a slurry of water and beads in that blast?
The reason I ask is that I watch this rebuild rescue youtube channel where they rebuild airplanes and they vapor blast the plane with no cabinet. It is completely dry ice. It all just sublimates and nothing is left behind. Pretty cool system, but super expensive. Actually, they call it vapor honing for one... ua-cam.com/users/shortsaFQ17acY1F8 and dry ice blasting for another ua-cam.com/video/r6MHy2NCuWg/v-deo.html I am pretty sure they called it vapor blasting at one point, but it is dry ice blaster from Cold Jet.
@@sammcbride2464 ah I see. Cool stuff 👍
@@Itsallaboutthebuild Yeah...super cool and super expensive.
Unimpressive.
Why???