Making a DIY sandblaster

so neither of us guys in today's episode we have something new and fun in store for you. Now let me explain to you what exactly made me want to do this and then we'll figure out where to go from here anyway so I was chilling in my garage where I found this thing here so this is a vise that you can use as some kind of portable instrument or mount it on a bench for example right now we are restoring a motorcycle and this is what's left of the rim I tried to clean it with an angle grinder yesterday but the rest is so bad that it's impossible to remove it, which which made me think.

You see, we could really use a

sandblaster

around here. I'm sure you all know what that is and how it works, suffice it to say. which is an invaluable tool in our trade if you need to give something a deep clean, it's actually a pretty simple device, the only difficult thing was finding an empty guest cylinder, well we found one so it wasn't too expensive to The rest of the parts you need to do all this work aren't particularly expensive either, seriously, the most expensive parts were well, again, this cylinder and here I have a bunch.

I gathered a variety of useful supplies, mostly valves. pieces and some foam tape. I am very interested in putting together a sandblasting machine. I don't know why I couldn't do it. I mean, it's a very useful thing in anyone's garage if you need to clean something, it'll do. You are right, it will remove any type of rust very quickly and whatever the rate I see, we put together a

sandblaster

. Anyway, I've never used one, we'll see how it works, how much it's worth and whether it's actually useful or not that useful, let's get this right folks, the hardest thing we had to do, the rule was to remove the valve from the aspect of things we It has been cooling here for several years, it was so sticky that we could barely extract it, these things happen, what matters is that it is already available, as you can imagine, hacking or welding this cylinder as is is not an option, since it is still It contains some residual gas, although it might appear as if it is empty when, for the sake of time, in fact, that is not the case and believe me when I say that that residual gas is more than enough to make this a really bad day, so To cut it into pieces we will first have to fill it with water.

I've done this. several times there is really nothing to do, we just need to fill it to the brim with water, which will allow us to start cutting carefully, ok, let's start

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a DIY translation with sandblasting and a voiceover from beyond my Russian right now. We have a filler neck to pour the sand. Now we need to drill a hole in the side which we will use to feed air into the cylinder and generate some high pressure, but you see, we need to create some. of pressure there to get the balance to loosen this end, we're going to need to make another hole down there, a well-made fitting through which the sand will come out of the cylinder where it will basically go into and into the hose. at that point you just point and spray, but we still have to get to that part, for now we just cut and drill well, yes, we can cut around this weld.

Awesome, we don't even need to try that hard here. We just need to cut around the line which fits nicely and then we just weld around it. Ok, we've cut a piece, it's nice and smooth, there doesn't seem to be any wobble. We can go ahead and solder it. We have welded the neck of the pillar, that's fine or maybe I should call it loading neck anyway now we just need yes, right here we will drill a hole which is where we will weld a fitting and place a valve through which will feed the cylinder with air and will increase the internal pressure plus one for the sandblasting gun.

In any case, we will understand better the further we go, we will start with some drilling followed immediately with a welding hood. I mean, why wait? Well, here I have the fitting that measures half an inch and is for the pipe. If I remember correctly, it had an external diameter of about 21 millings, which should result in an internal diameter of 16, which means that we will make a 16 millimeter hole, oh right, it is full of water, well, it won't be such a terrible flood. What do we have here? We have wood that used to be a guest cylinder with a big boar's neck up here on the side, we have a Half Inch Fitting and in addition, we've welded another fitting down here that's also a half inch in diameter.

Check it out, guys. We have given him a pink job. The beam is nice and dry. It looks quite different. We decided to color it black. and now all the fittings that we have welded, except this big one, must be connected, for that we will use this hose, this one is 20 thousand. I have a good one too, so here, weed, where are they? they're here. I have a set of filler nozzles that are also 20 mil in diameter. We'll use some foam tape to get a tight seal and now we need to connect everything properly. Let's do this.

Look at this. Friends, we have put everything together, everything looks good as to how this works, everything is very simple, you feed the compressed air through here under pressure, mmm, and right here, when I visited the store, I couldn't find the quick release connector with half. inch thread, maybe they just temporarily didn't have them in stock when I was there, so we connected everything through a hose and hopefully it will hold it together. I guess I should, I mean, we often connect hoses in this precise way and things usually seem to work fine anyway, so we open the valve, the compressed air goes into the cylinder and here we have a second hose, we open this valve and at this point we already have pressure inside the cylinder, we have pressure in this hose, we get up. to this TPS and everything feeds directly into this hose right here, the pressure here is exactly the same as what's inside the cylinder, so we found that at this end we're going to have a jet that's going to shut down the whole system.

It will be under pressure in the meantime, this valve that is located down here will be adjusted to open and close to control the flow of sand or instead of sand you can use this thing that I bought, it's called copper slag and I'm very interested. When you try it, you will see that the parts we need to sandblast, if we sprayed them with sand, it would take a long time to clean them of the copper slag. The green ones are a little bigger and it also differs from the sand in that way. Normal beach sand granules are round, while these ones actually have sharp edges.

When this material comes into contact with metal, it is much more effective at cleaning rust dirt and everything else. Now the part time is interesting for us to put together the jet. You've already done it. It is actually made with an automotive grade spark plug, you need to cut the metal parts of the spark plug leaving only the ceramic part, then we take a ceramic granite grinding disc and start cutting carefully, you need to cut just before the white part of the ceramic piece. Because? So we can put this plug on the valve. That's when I take a simple 1/2 inch plug.

I have one of those right here, so I'm going to drill it, what's the diameter? 12 thousand. Fantastic, I guess. I'll use a 12 point 5 millimeter bit, maybe even a 13 mil, which doesn't matter. I mean, it's not like this piece is going anywhere. We'll install a seal right here. I think one from an oxygen hose should work. We will cut a piece of hose, we will insert the plug well, I mean the ceramic fitting that we have left from the spark plug, then we will take this plug that will act as a kind of retaining nut and we will use it to hold everything we have well.

I still have to figure all this out. I think we're going to get the job done quickly and I'm eager to start testing this. Okay, guys, look at this. I have drilled and assembled everything. They watched me slide that piece of hose in, but as I'm sure you can see that after putting it all together and tightening the nut, the ceramic bit is slightly off center, just a little bit, that's not critical at all. I really don't think it makes a big difference. I think it still works. to work, so to start we will have to test it well, the tank is almost empty, so the thing is that our air compressors can reach a pressure of up to 10 atmospheres and, although these hoses are reinforced, I have my doubts about this.

It's not that I have any doubts, I just like to check and make sure they will hold up well. I mean, it would be pretty unpleasant to see everything go crazy when there are 5-7 kilos of sand packed in the machine that I don't want flying in all directions, so for now we'll do an empty test, so assuming this works, we'll go outside and do some sandblasting right now, check these hoses and everything else will stay in one piece. It's blowing pretty hard and that stream is going to contain slag or sand, this should be pretty good, so I took everything outside, but you know, I'm now aware of the fact that you have to take safety measures very seriously.

I have my jacket, I have my hat and that is the most serious clothing I have. I'm afraid this isn't going to help, but hey, it's these gloves, I don't think they'll help. you or you would be better off with a pair of welding gloves and here is the vise that I wanted to clean, let's go okay, at least try to secure it to the table. Great, let's try it by opening the valve, well, something is coming. Look at your Wow, I just made a hole in the table, shit, okay, now look at this, look at the speed at which it goes flying, doesn't it look cool now that we've cleaned it up?

Looks good, ready for some clear coat. Right now we have to try to clean this rim. I'll go ahead and put it here. No one else had what can I say here, friends. Actually, I didn't expect this kind of effect. This is a very useful device. How long would you be doing this with a wire brush on an angle grinder or drill, no matter what the case is? I would never have scraped off this old, deep-seated rust. I would have easily wiped off this soft, thick top layer. but as far as the indentations and all that other stuff, they wouldn't even have gone in there, but in our case, this thing is incredibly effective.

He'll do it while he was at it. I tried cleaning the paint and it comes out great, mom. the vise looks new there is one thing I need to do, it became clear to me that it is actually quite cold outside, we are hoping to see some rain and the air compressor apparently is not equipped with a water separator and that is not the case. Well the air has to be treated and shouldn't be human and with these long hoses we can't say for sure if there is condensation. For me, a little bit of water gets in its way, which I'm sure you've noticed.

In the footage, in any case, copper slag is being fed, so we are all fine with the air. We saw the mouthpiece coughing a little. What matters is that everything works pretty well, so yeah, I'd say this is a pretty useful device that said security should always be a big concern. I mean these gloves, if you accidentally spray them on your hand, they won't help you. You need something much more robust, like deerskin or something good, maybe even some kind. soft material so that when the sand comes into contact with the fabric it doesn't go through it, did you see how quickly Morgan made that hole, yeah this is a good piece of boy, honestly why didn't I make one sooner?

It's much easier to clean the old, dirty parts, you don't even need wire brushes, just load this end up, plug in the air compressor, get out and give everything a quick reign, and then there's the fact that you can reach places you've earned physically. I won't be able to clean with a brush, I mean, the particles fly away at a tremendous speed. Cleaning everything on contact will be great anyway guys, that's all I have for you, but if you decide to go this route, be sure to be careful. I assure you that you will see a 107 percent success rate.

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