well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm gonna review my bench top media blasting cabinet
and what I think about it over the long haul I've had this for over five years now and should you
get one of these well what I'm gonna do today is I'm going to media blast a couple of items here
this here is off the front of my truck it's just like a little bit of a bumper there and all I do
is put some tape over top here just some duct tape over top to cover this red reflector and
this is the rusted pin that goes through it and you know when you're on YouTube you read a lot
of comments friend of mine got one of these last year a cabinet like this and one of the comments
below was don't go past 45 50 pounds when you're using crushed glass and that's what I use is I use
the media crush glass I don't use sand blasting material like the sand itself and I got a little
bit of a chuckle out of that and my cabinet here says right on it to use a hundred and twenty psi
and I thought I wouldn't how many people are eating them comments thinking forty five fifty
bucks you're not gonna get no or this thing's not even gonna do anything with that much pressure so
the whole idea behind these cabinets is you have to have a decent size air compressor for volume
now my air compressor will not keep up with this I get about maybe a minute of blasting
before I gotta let my compressor charge up again so you cannot use one of these the small little
compressor because it's not just the pressure it's also the amount of volume of air that you're
pushing through your line and of course the bigger line you have the more volume you get through and
the better results you'll have but for me I've had quite good success with this now on occasion
from time to time the gun itself because you're blasting in the area the media that you knock off
like little pieces of or whatever that would get sucked down that tube that's in the media
blasting cabinet itself and plug up your gun and all of a sudden you're pulling the trigger and
nothing's coming out there's no media coming out at all you got to take it apart and inside there's
the screen you'll see that it's plugged solid you got to knock it all out and then start over again
so I wish these were a little better designed so that the media that's being used is separate from
the you know the new media because after a while yeah you get a lot of scale and rust inside your
cabinet and it just plugs up solid all the time so that's the bad part but I mean for the price this
was under $100 for me and how often do I use it I use it on little projects like this brake calipers
are terrific to put in here and I'll show you the compressor I use and I show a little modification
that I've done to mine that I think most people should do so let's take a look so here we are
tucked in the corner here and that's just my air compressor and you can take a look at the specs
on there and 4.8 CFM just ain't gonna cut it but it will give you your 120 psi so that's what I
do and I'll show you the media blasting cabinet and some little bit of modifications that I've
done this worked out good for me okay first off you can see I got my little vacuum cleaner there
and what I've done is I put it in here I got it up going through a valve now this valve once you
get it done guys you're never going to move that valve again because the media will block it in
one position so you got to get it right you know when the first the first day that you're trying
it out to get the right suction but that's what I've done on the inside here they usually have
some kind of a filter in there and that didn't do anything so this cabinet by itself now it didn't
cut it you know it was it was at best horrible for just the way it came out of the box I had to add
a vacuum to it and of course it's got a light inside you could see here that yeah you have
to change this media plastic lens on the inside a lot what I'll do is I'll I'll just run these
through the machine and I'll show you what the effect is after well it's all done there it is
right there and you could see it does a terrific job and it gets in around them little cracks that
you can't really get into with like a wire brush or you know a rotating disc or something it does
a terrific job on stuff like this and of course yeah you could wire wheel this kind of stuff but
you know it comes out great and I spent 10 minutes tops and you know I only sandblast for a minute or
two I let the tank charge up again and then I go at it again and it's very simple it's easy what
I recommend one of these absolutely and I've had great success with this one with a little bit of a
modification and you know what I would just go for it if you're thinking about getting one of these
even if you have like a smaller compressor you can do a bit at a time when I do a brake job and I hit
the caliper off the caliper bracket itself I put it in here it looks just like brand-new and just
like these parts here all I did was just rinse them on a little bit of water make sure like if
you have a brake caliper that all the the media is outside of the threads you want to wash them out
good and that kind of stuff but for somebody who's a do-it-yourselfer who just likes to have stuff
look nice you know I think it's terrific and you know what a lot of people do I have some friends
and what they do is they send me a little piece of glass with a sketch on it you know just something
that they want to put on their place somewhere you know inside of a frame and on the inside of it is
using an exacto knife and they cut out just like a stencil of just masking tape and I put it in
the blaster here and it gives a frost and effect all over and then you pull off the masking tape
and it's got whatever design you had underneath whether it was a message or you know anything like
that and a lot of them been quite comical over the years and yes a lot of people use these for crafts
so it's not always like do-it-yourselfer guy that wants to just get rust off of a you know an object
like this or a brake caliper or that kind of stuff I use this all the time I guess I would say every
month or you know I'm using it you know quite a bit not a lot but I mean for 10 minutes look what
it did and what would I had to do with a wire wheel and scrape in and everything else this is
so easy just you know bus it along and that's it and that's great it's like I said in the beginning
though the odd time you're gonna get a piece of media go inside the hose you just got to take
it apart clean it out and that's it besides that I'm saying I love this whole thing I mean for the
money hey why not so thanks for joining me here today and looking at this little bit of a cabinet
and I'm saying it's a buy so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel before
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