Looks beautiful!! I love the wood glass cover thing. I just found one of these on Facebook also and I am going to turn it into a vapor honing cabinet. Before I do that I might do the upgrades that you did first.. Thanks for sharing this great build...
Thanks for your video! Have had issues with water from your air compressor yet? I had all kinds of problems, even after installing two inline water filters. Finally solved it by adding an auto water drain valve kit on the air compressor drain plug. I’m using the Dewalt auto drain kit….
I got one for Christmas from my son .I Bound out if there's any water in your compressor the beat blusher will not keep working cause. It gets the glass wet and it will not go to thenazzle no. WI gotta figure out a way of putting the thing on the bottom of my compressor to drain the water out of it. I get an elbow and do that. But it works really well does a good job. I'm very happy with it god bless have a great day oldgeorge
I'm shirt somewhere in the comments and I know it's already been done so it doesn't really matter but why not just mail a light bar inside and run the wire out put it into a multi plug flicker shop vac into that and then every time you plug in your multi plug it just turns both of them on but you would still have the power of turning one on or one off and in that configuration you wouldn't have to drag the shop back around cuz it would be detachable by just unplugging it from the multi plug
I guess my little compressor is not going to do it. Would you let me know what brand compressor, motor voltage ( I only have 110/115, pictures because I may have to buy another one.
@tonyportella994 mine is a Diamond brand found at my local farm/fleet store however any 60 gallon compressor would be adequate for your needs. Kobalt, Husky, DeWalt etc. most of them are made in the same factory and have different branding painted on the tanks.
Excellent find for 40 bucks! You were doing great with the rebuild till you made the metering valve. The basic concept was there but a poor choice of parts to construct it. I've watched many RU-vid videos on different designs on how to build one of these but the parts you chose to use were very restrictive (too small) and will result in poor performance and slow blasting results. When you get a chance you might want to build a more efficient metering valve and a better gun, you'll be glad you did.
I've never had any problems or trouble with the simple internal syphon system; the few times I have had less than good results have been easily remedied. I have seen a bunch (!) of youtube videos where the first thing folks do is add a "gravity" feed "metering" valve to the cabinet. Some of these are homemade and some are commercial. The gun venturi provides the suction necessary to pull the media up from the hopper regardless of the arrangement. The least distance that the media has to travel is optimum. The only system design that is more efficient is the pressure pot system. They are mostly (yes, there are a couple of exceptions) commercial and expensive. I think most of the frustration with syphon tubes is damp media, gun nozzle trouble, mismatched components, and blocked or poorly made syphon tubes.
Thomas, I've got to say you've done a great job refurbing that blast cabinet my friend 👏 I have the same one brand new with all the xtra parts I bought for it out in my garage, probably have had it almost a year and haven't been able to put it together yet, lol 😄. I'll get to it soon! AWESOME JOB buddy!!👍👍
I agree. RU-vid has become ridiculous with the placement and quantity of ads during videos. My suggestion is to use an adblocker on your browser. RU-vid placed those ads without my permission. All my new uploads do not have ads in the middle of the video (called mid-roll ads), only at the beginning and the end of the video.
