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I think I will use medium grit sandblasting sand. Princess Auto seem to carry many different grades as well as glass media and copper media. What do you suggest?

YES!!! I went over to the vacuum cleaner sales shop and bought 8 foot of 2" inner diameter vacuum hose, four gear clamps (and a reducer that I didn't use) for the grand total of $70 (which was about $20 too much) this morning. After some careful fitting and clamping I have all the vacuum lines...

Yesterday I picked up this wet/dry vacuum for $20 from the local buy and sell magazine. It works good. If it has too much suction I can trade it for a smaller vacuum that I use for cleaning up my lathe and mill. This is the kind of thing that I have to "try it and see" how it works. Everything...

Today we have a Thien baffle plate carved out. I won't be able to mount it until tomorrow comes----I need to go to the hardware store and buy some 5/16" threaded rod. it's a beautiful warm day here, and I think good wife and I are going to go set at our upper deck and sample some wine coolers.

So, here is a "first assembly" of my cyclone dust collector. The metal tubes are just setting in place for now, as I haven't bought a vacuum yet to run it, and I need a better idea of the pipe size I will require. Good wife and I spent yesterday lunch at a restaurant patio to celebrate our...

Woodwork is not my thing, but I can whittle out a shape. Once I get this attached to the bucket, a 90 degree elbow will fit in the outer end for a flexible pipe running up to my sandblaster.

Today, I am going to start moving forward on my dust collector. On most of the dust collectors that I have seen on Youtube, the pipe inlet that goes into the side of the bucket is glued in place. This looks like it is rather fragile to me---the kind of thing that looks great but breaks about the...

This is the vacuum tube set up exiting the rear of the cabinet. A hose well go from it to the dust collector. I couldn't relocate it to the ends of the cabinet because the ends are both hinged doors. There is one other small hole in the rear of the cabinet which I will plug. Now that I have...

I forgot to show the vacuum piping which connects to the rear side of the sandblaster cabinet and runs down to my cyclone dust extractor. I can't see to weld worth a damn anymore, but good enough for parts which are hidden behind the cabinet.

I don't have a lot to go on here. I have modeled the five gallon pail. I have modelled a flange which fits onto the back of the sandblaster cabinet. Right at the moment all I'm sure of are the pail dimensions and the diameter of the existing hole in the back of the sandblasting cabinet--it's a...

I'm going to call this project finished. I spent today buying a piece of glass for $22 and another tube of silicone for $8, which brings my total cost up to $286. Glass and aluminum trim strips are installed. Did I save any money by doing this all myself instead of buying a finished unit...

Sparky---Those are all going to be self tappers.

Tonight I'm a very cranky guy. For the last six hours all I've done is crank the mill table back and forth. The frame I have made up from 1" x 1/4" aluminum flat bar is about 23" x 11" with a 1/2"wide x 0.127" deep recess all around the side which sets up against the cabinet. Tomorrow I will buy...

I will be using a Thien baffle in this build.---Brian

As part of my sandblaster build, I am building a cyclonic dust collector system. When I am using the sandblaster, hi pressure air is forced into the cabinet to carry the blasting sand to strip any parts I have in the blaster cabinet. This requires that there be a vacuum line connected to the...

Here it is Sunday morning and all the stores are closed today. Can't buy Lexan nor aluminum strips to go around it to build a custom framed viewing panel. Can't buy any 2 1/4" o.d. steel tube to make up part of the vacuum dust extraction system. Can't really do anything buildwise. However...

Yes, after searching locally I have decided to do the same. I will use 1/8" Lexan and some milled aluminum strips to hold my viewing panel in.---Brian

YEAH!!! My gloves are installed. Great big nasty ugly gloves--(I may borrow them at Halloween). They fit up very nicely to the adapters I have tuned on my lathe, and both are secured to the adapters with a big gear clamp.

I called Harbor Freight this morning, and they said that model was so old they no longer supported it.--No Parts. So, I came up with a different way of doing the job, just means more work for me.

I've hit a snag!!! The viewing panel is held into the cabinet sheet metal with a special rubber molding. The one I have is totally rotten. A phone call to Harbor Freight tells me they no longer have this part available as a replacement part. I have tried a couple of places in Barrie that deal in...