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Posted by Henry Barker (Member # 174) on :

There are many times here that poeple ask about sandblasting equipment, I have been the TIP hobby pot route so I know how it is from using small inefficient equipment to stuff that has paid for itself many times.

We use a Clemco pressure pot with "deadman" shutoff remote as an extra, we also have Clemco air hood and filter system. I bought all Clemco (US company I believe) equipment new, well...the pot was 4 months old but the hood and air filter were new, the pot was a demonstrator, we use a 1/4" nozzle (6.5mm). I bought a 1980 diesel compressor Atlas Copco for around $12,000 which works great, we blast HDU 95% of the time, although the sign in the pictures was wood but it was supposed to be made to look like driftwood, and was cheaper to do it with the real thing than make it in hdu.

and here sorry if the images are a bit big!

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Henry Barker #1924
akaKaftan
SignCraft AB
Stockholm, Sweden.
A little bit of England in a corner of Stockholm
www.signcraft.se
info@signcraft.se

Posted by Troy Haas (Member # 472) on :

Henry,
What is the min. CFM you would reccomend to use for blasting mostly HDU??????

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Troy Haas
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Posted by Felix Marcano (Member # 1833) on :

So, does clemco have a catalog or a site we can check out? I tried clemco.com with no luck...

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Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :

Lokos like a nice setup.
All I can sat htough is...
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, man that looks COLD.

David

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Posted by Henry Barker (Member # 174) on :

Yeah David thats snow in the background and not sand!

Sam you don't need much pressure for HDU if you look in Sign-Foams product guide you will see pictures of a small TIP pot and workshop compressor, and it works, but with no air over to run an air hood, unless you opt for another type of air hood system, and its slow, very slow. I found that we were blasting unevenly, that the compressor was keeping up but only just (5.5hp workshop compressor. I guess it felt like trying to paint a car with an airbrush! The Clemco set up is really well built industrial quality like no bends on pipe work, where sand errosion occurs all connections around the pot are "T" couplings to that you just change a plug when they wear out and not the bend, in fact the sand sits in the plug acting like a buffer.

Felix
The link to Clemco is www.clemcoindustries.com

Go in under Clemco, you will see the pot we use, I have an Appollo helmet, and CPF air filter system.

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Henry Barker #1924
akaKaftan
SignCraft AB
Stockholm, Sweden.
A little bit of England in a corner of Stockholm
www.signcraft.se
info@signcraft.se

[This message has been edited by Henry Barker (edited March 15, 2001).]

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