soda blaster

[Shug]

Anyone diy'ed one?
Paying local blaster money time and time again gets annoying, and I know you can buy em from frost but wheres the fun in that
I'm thinking some old propane/butane cylinders, water trap, bit o hose, couple bits o bar and a couple wheels.

 

[rtbcomp]

Look in the compressed air section, there are a few home-made blasters there.

 

[michael1703]

i bought a frost soda blaster and it was crap, £15 of soda gone and ive got a shiny patch 8 inch square, the promo videos look good but i think the footage is actually of a large industrial blaster rather than the pot blaster they sell

 

[brightspark]

i bought a frost soda blaster and it was crap, £15 of soda gone and ive got a shiny patch 8 inch square, the promo videos look good but i think the footage is actually of a large industrial blaster rather than the pot blaster they sell

there total dross pots and the soda. what can strip paint and rust but not damage glass there only glorified machine mart pots that sell for 126 quid . 95 quid at the autojumbles

 

[Richm]

Friend of mine has a soda blasting company in finland an what they can do with them is amazing, but to buy the kit they have comp + blaster would be in the region of £10K, As far as I understand it they are a hell of a lot more complicated than blast pots because the air and soda need to be metered a lot more accurately for each application.

 

[graffian]

If you look at the patent you can see how it works.
I have seen several posts saying the frost system doesn't work
properly and uses far to much soda.

 

[brightspark]

If you look at the patent you can see how it works.
I have seen several posts saying the frost system doesn't work
properly and uses far to much soda.

it sounds about rite. all this crap about special metering valves and air ive had kiln dried sand and a few diffrent grades of beads through a small pressurised pot made out of an aluminium fire extinguisher it was fed at 90psi and had a 3mm carbide nozzle . no problem metering either media and soda isnt any diffrent apart from a big price tag diffrence and is expendable .anyone buying one is wasting there money . just go buy the clarke presurised pot from machine mart 120 quid. spend 25 quid on a bag of soda and see the results.if u arent happy it can be used on grit ect . theres a firm selling the soda just up the road from me at aycliffe industrial estate
i rang them and they were verry helpfull they give samples of every grade of the stuff they sell but in my opinion dont bother save your cash and time experementing

 

[Shox Dr]

i rang them and they were verry helpfull they give samples of every grade of the stuff they sell but in my opinion dont bother save your cash and time experementing

Why did it not work? I'm interested in using it for cleaning carbs before I put them in the Ultrasonic cleaner

 

[brightspark]

Why did it not work? I'm interested in using it for cleaning carbs before I put them in the Ultrasonic cleaner

the soda works fine in the ordinary pot