Home Built Sandblasting Cabinet – Version 1

This is my home made sandblasting cabinet. Most of it is self explanatory.  Gloves are home made and the rest is made from scrap along with a few new items, such as the light and Campbell Hausfeld Sandblasting Kit.  I plan on making a video of this in March of 2014.

The hinges were made from 1/4inch steel (its what I had laying around)  and the reinforcing ridge is made from 1/8inch X 2inch flat.  This ridge needs to be welded on before the fuel oil barrel is cut apart.  The steel that bends around the barrel is still loaded like a spring, and will try to straighten out if its not reinforced to try and hold its shape.  With the gussets and 2inch flat that I welded all the way around it, it still sprung a bit when I cut the two halves apart.

The two switches turns on the vacuum and the lights independently.

The metal framing you see under the expanded steel is 2 x 1/8 flat.  The grid is 1ft x 1ft.

This is how I attached the expanded steel to the cabinet.  I needed the fasteners to be above the grading so I could access them.

The above image is kinda tough to describe.  The tube you see exiting to the outside of the cabinet actually lets outside air enter the cabinet when the vacuum or dust collection is on.  When the vacuum/dust collection is turned on, the whole cabinet has less pressure than outside the cabinet. Air is then pulled through this tube down to the bottom (under the sand), this air follows this tube down where the sand goes into the inlet tube.  This is supposed to “liquefy” or make the sand flow-able, so it can be siphoned up the tube and out the nozzle easier.

Home made sandblasting cabinet gloves made out of gloves from the general farm fleet store and some vinyl upholstery material.

The light is cradled using 1/8 steel all the way around.

UPDATE:  Version 2 is below