Fuel Tank Sand Blasting Cabinet
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"We do custom painting and sand blasting of tractors, forklifts, and other equipment. We recently bought a big commercial sand blaster for our work. My son said he thought we needed another sand blaster for doing small stuff. So we made our own out of a 300-gal. diesel fuel tank, a cheap commercial pistol-type siphon blast gun, and a shop vac," says Skip Kirkland of Mahomet, Ill.
Kirkland cut the tank stand's legs down to 2 ft. and fitted them with caster wheels. A 1 by 2-ft. window was cut into one side along with a pair of 7-in. dia. access holes, spaced 16 in. apart. He fitted the holes with lengths of inner tubing to act as protective gloves.
On one end of the tank he cut out a 2-ft. sq. hole and mounted a hinged plywood door over it to serve as an access door. A large metal shelf at the opposite end supports a standard electric-powered shop vac that's used to suck dust out of the tank. The vac's hose is inserted through a fill hole on top of the tank. The air-powered siphon blast gun is inside the tank and is hooked up to a big 10 hp, 3-phase, electric-powered air compressor. A steel pipe runs from the siphon blast gun through the end of the tank and down into a bucket of sand that mounts on a second shelf below the shop vac. When Kirkland pulls the trigger on the siphon blast gun, sand is sucked up out of the bucket and is blown out.
A water filter/regulator mounted on one side of the tank is used to catch any moisture in the air compressor line.
"It works great and can be easily moved around our shop," says Kirkland. "To operate the sand blasting cabinet, we simply flip a switch on the compressor. A 4-ft. long fluorescent shop light hangs inside the tank to provide light," notes Kirkland.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Skip Kirkland, 19 CR 2150 N, Mahomet, Ill. 61853 (ph 217 586-6121
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Fuel Tank Sand Blasting Cabinet FARM SHOP Tools 25-1-31 "We do custom painting and sand blasting of tractors, forklifts, and other equipment. We recently bought a big commercial sand blaster for our work. My son said he thought we needed another sand blaster for doing small stuff. So we made our own out of a 300-gal. diesel fuel tank, a cheap commercial pistol-type siphon blast gun, and a shop vac," says Skip Kirkland of Mahomet, Ill.
Kirkland cut the tank stand's legs down to 2 ft. and fitted them with caster wheels. A 1 by 2-ft. window was cut into one side along with a pair of 7-in. dia. access holes, spaced 16 in. apart. He fitted the holes with lengths of inner tubing to act as protective gloves.
On one end of the tank he cut out a 2-ft. sq. hole and mounted a hinged plywood door over it to serve as an access door. A large metal shelf at the opposite end supports a standard electric-powered shop vac that's used to suck dust out of the tank. The vac's hose is inserted through a fill hole on top of the tank. The air-powered siphon blast gun is inside the tank and is hooked up to a big 10 hp, 3-phase, electric-powered air compressor. A steel pipe runs from the siphon blast gun through the end of the tank and down into a bucket of sand that mounts on a second shelf below the shop vac. When Kirkland pulls the trigger on the siphon blast gun, sand is sucked up out of the bucket and is blown out.
A water filter/regulator mounted on one side of the tank is used to catch any moisture in the air compressor line.
"It works great and can be easily moved around our shop," says Kirkland. "To operate the sand blasting cabinet, we simply flip a switch on the compressor. A 4-ft. long fluorescent shop light hangs inside the tank to provide light," notes Kirkland.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Skip Kirkland, 19 CR 2150 N, Mahomet, Ill. 61853 (ph 217 586-6121
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