I was first introduced to abrasive blasting in my early teenage years while restoring my first classic car, a Triumph Spitfire. This car was known to have a lot of rust problems and blasting was a perfect solution to help restore it. Ever since then, I have restored a rusty '67 Mercury Cougar and am currently working on a '68 Pontiac Firebird. It wasn't until several years later that I got interested in the hobby of using my blaster to engrave designs into glass and rock. I have also worked for a landscaping company specializing in sandblasting artistic designs into rocks. I decided to create this website to blog about the cool things that one can do with sandblasting, provide information about sandblasters with solutions to problems such as flow, and to write about my current car restoration projects. I also market and sell informational materials such as the Sandblaster Plans which shows you how to make your own and my Fix Sandblaster Abrasive Problems & Modification Manual which can be downloaded at any time of day. All you need is a credit card or Paypal account. I pride myself on some of the helpful solutions and provide a 30 day money back guaranteed if it wasn't helpful. I appreciate you checking out my site. You can review any of my latest blog posts below. Comments are welcome and encouraged!
If you sandblast with the typical sandblaster nozzle that is used for most pressure pots, you will want to check out our latest super carbide tips. They are made of our own composite carbide material blend. If you are aware, composite carbide sandblaster nozzles are the longest lasting material to withstand wear with even very
As you may know, I enjoy using my sandblaster for hobbies as well as cleaning rust from car parts. One of them is to sandblast etch designs into glass. In this post, I wanted to show an interesting idea of using a bottle cutter to upcycle a wine bottle into something useful: an etched candle.
A great question came in from a customer, Ann, about connecting our sandblaster nozzle with mini hose to a cabinet. This tutorial is also relevant to our other hose version. She stated: Just purchased a steel blasting gun for a cabinet. I need to take the hose off of 1 end so I can feed
We now provide the larger ceramic nozzle tips which are more commonly used for industrial size sandblasting equipment but they can be used for smaller systems as well. This size is known as the C1 which is 3-3/4″ long. Benefits to Using these Larger Nozzle Tips: Longer Lasting: the longer length of almost 4″ and
We have received a lot of questions about the frustration with ball valves wearing out with the pressure pot sandblaster. We have discovered that a lot of folks are using ball valves incorrectly, as I have done when I first started sandblasting. There are typically 4 ball valves on the pressure pot sandblaster: Air Valve–
LARGE REPLACEMENT SANDBLASTER NOZZLE ASSEMBLY: Included is a large premium quality ceramic nozzle, nozzle holder and a 3/4″ stainless steel NPT ball valve for long-lasting life. Replace your existing nozzle holder with this system utilizing large 3-3/4″ nozzles! OUTLASTS SMALL NOZZLES SEVERAL TIMES: INDUSTRIAL GRADE system can be used for larger pressure pot sandblasting systems
We are now offering the tungsten carbide TL2 Series sandblast nozzle tips, manufactured by Kennametal. These are a bit more affordable than their ROCTEC nozzles which we offer, but still hold up for a longer duration than most tungsten carbide nozzle brands. No other tungsten carbide comes close to the high-quality and performance as these.
Another subscriber, Ray Knowles, was nice enough to submit photos of his glass sandblastings he did LED lit glass stands. He shared the below details on them: I do a lot of this type of work, (see pics) mostly 20 cm x 15 cm x 6 mm glass, base made from MDF off-cuts, painted and
This beautiful sandblasted glass piece was sent in by Steve Davis. He was nice enough to share it on the blog to give us all a little inspiration! He stated these details on this piece: Glass is 8” x 10” x 3/8” Base is handmade As many of you probably know, sandblasting is well
We have many different nozzle variations, but nothing comes close to the value as our latest Deluxe version. It is similar to our other upgraded pressure pot nozzle except this model comes with a long lasting 3/32″ ID boron carbide tip. Features: Long Lasting Tip & Construction– included is a tip made of one of
