Blast cabinet makeover blast off

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Blast cabinet makeover blast off

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After rigging parlor nets in 400 lobster traps I have finally fired up my new blast cabinet
To play for a while. These stummels came out of the bucket of shame to see what a loop
System blaster can do these are by no means finished but please feel free to suggest anything
You might observe
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The first two photos was the initial cut with steel media 50 psi for 3min

5min o change media

The last three photos was softer glass bead 65 psi for 6min.
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Well, not to rain on your parade or anything, but the detail isn't amazing on those blasts. I'd suggest playing around with psi, nozzle size, and media to get a more detailed result.
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Yeah, those aren't good. Wrong media, wrong pressure.
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Yeah that's what I thought too,there's no parade to rain on
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What grit bead, and what do you mean by softer?
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Softer as opposed to 70 grit steel its 120-325 seive
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pipeguy wrote:Softer as opposed to 70 grit steel its 120-325 seive
Gotcha.

See if you can find some that doesn't have such a wide range of grit, and get it toward the higher grit (smaller) range.

Turn the pressure up. Way up.
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I think pressure matters more than the exact media, and more than the size of the media.
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OK will play with the higher grit and pressure will post pics and we'll
See if we can get some better results your comments about the first pics are spot on
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