Home sand blasters.....

[Cranky]

What type of media do you use and what type of mask (if any) do you wear?

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/1/135.full

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/92-102/

 

[WileE]

I've been doing this for many years. Media depends on the material (metal, fiberglass,plastic, etc) and what it is you're removing ( paint, rust, etc.). I use everything from walnutshells, to playsand, to glassbeads,to black beauty,etc.etc. Also, pressure must be adjusted accordingly. And, I always use the same mask I use while painting... always.

 

[Donny]

And you WileERobby are a prime candidate for Cancer and massive Lung problems. If your mask is not a filtered positive feed air, and air cooled with a cape and heard helmet you're drinking from a Fire Hose and may not even know it.

 

[WileE]

And you WileERobby are a prime candidate for Cancer and massive Lung problems. If your mask is not a filtered positive feed air, and air cooled with a cape and heard helmet you're drinking from a Fire Hose and may not even know it.

Hello ? Hello ? What do you think I used ? A dust mask ? That's my point.

 

[Photon440]

I think Donny got the impression that you didn't use a filtered positive feed air breathing system when you posted that. Myself, I automatically assumed (perhaps wrongly) that you were referring to a regular organic vapor cartridge mask when you said you used it for painting.

 

[mopar 3 B]

We have discussed this recently in another post. Donny knows what he is talking about. I will not be doing any open air blasting anymore even with a cartridge respirator.

 

[snakeoil24]

I have a blast cabinet in my garage with a vacuum that sucks thru a water trap an d i still make sure i wear a respirator. All blasting should be done only by a qualified pro or water blast only. Expect the epa to ban all forms of blasting in the near future and require water blasting with a negative pressure reclaim only a matter of time.

 

[67Satty]

Would you guys put soda blasting in this same dangerous category?

 

[Donny]

It's just a dirty, dusty, and messy job this blasting is. Even with a track and path of it's product; meaning brand new (in my case) plastic blasting media comes in all nice and pretty, clean, heck it even smells good. At the end of it's life-cycle it assumes a liquid-like state of dust, never seen anything so amazing yet so absolutely miserable as the dust coming out of the Dust Collector, put it in a 5 gal bucket, and it's like a liquid, very very fine particles. Nasty stuff indeed. Perhaps no less than 55-60% of all time doing Media Blasting is doing maintanence, cleaning of equipment, and or troubleshooting something and cleaning up the car body of media in places like Rocker Panels, etc.

 

[Durandal25]

Donny is ayatollah of paint & body.

 

[Cranky]

Sometimes I wish for a bigger shop but if it were any bigger, it would just have even more stuff in it to move around and clean up.