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From: eatmorepies on 21 Oct 2009 06:35
Hello

My new sandblast cabinet has arrived but the black grit I bought at the
Stafford Show is too aggressive for aluminium. A friend suggested very dry
sea sand instead.

Any thoughts?

John


From: "Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot" on 21 Oct 2009 06:42
eatmorepies wrote:
> Hello
>
> My new sandblast cabinet has arrived but the black grit I bought at
> the Stafford Show is too aggressive for aluminium. A friend suggested
> very dry sea sand instead.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> John

Buy a bag of kiln-dried sand from a builder's merchants, I would.

--
Si
'88 XV535, '82 XJ550 being fettled.


From: Buzby on 21 Oct 2009 07:08
Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote:

> eatmorepies wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > My new sandblast cabinet has arrived but the black grit I bought at
> > the Stafford Show is too aggressive for aluminium. A friend
> > suggested very dry sea sand instead.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > John
>
> Buy a bag of kiln-dried sand from a builder's merchants, I would.

I could well be wrong here, but I'm sure I read in one of the
classic^^^ SOC rags that blasting with baking powder is good for more
delicate items - can't check as the mags been been lobbed

--
Buzby
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot"
From: Beav on 21 Oct 2009 10:06

"eatmorepies" <jspamn(a)olineone.net> wrote in message
news:7k86foF35hst1U1(a)mid.individual.net...
> Hello
>
> My new sandblast cabinet has arrived but the black grit I bought at the
> Stafford Show is too aggressive for aluminium. A friend suggested very dry
> sea sand instead.
>
> Any thoughts?

Yeah, nuts. Well the shells of nuts actually. Ground up (and available for
blasting use) and far less aggressive than sand or most other blasting
medium.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19


From: Tim on 21 Oct 2009 10:38
In message <KzEDm.34925$q07.20179(a)newsfe30.ams2>, Beav
<beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> writes
>
>"eatmorepies" <jspamn(a)olineone.net> wrote in message
>news:7k86foF35hst1U1(a)mid.individual.net...
>> Hello
>>
>> My new sandblast cabinet has arrived but the black grit I bought at the
>> Stafford Show is too aggressive for aluminium. A friend suggested very dry
>> sea sand instead.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>Yeah, nuts. Well the shells of nuts actually. Ground up (and available for
>blasting use) and far less aggressive than sand or most other blasting
>medium.
>
>

Can't Nige be stood close to the object. He's fairly good at "blasting".
Come to think of it he may have to tone it down a bit or it'd be too
abrasive. :-)

--
Tim
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