Good morning to you on the east side of the country. Snowing here this morning, sun not up yet to see how much.

 

Good morning Allen. Just supposed to rain here. Boo!

 

It's a real light snow falling here.

 

Fine drizzle coming down, the type that gets you more soaked than regular rain.

 

Afternoon guys! A little cloudy, but no rain or snow, and 40 deg.......

 

Howdy, Don!.........Do you have a bead blaster in your shop?

 

I don't have a blast cabinet, but do have a "pressure" style blaster. I hope to build a cabinet if we buy the new place we're looking at.

 

Must be nice!........you could probably make a cabinet out of a lot of different metal boxes.
I have been toying around with getting one of those ChiCom ones from Harbor Freight, but just cant seem to part with the dollars. I have lots of small parts that need cleaned up.

 

I have a parts tumbler that most guys would kill for.....The "box" is about 1 foot square and has little steel "spaceships" in it that tumble inside another chamber that is full of solvent. I can take several pounds of nuts and bolts and set the timer for 10 min, and everything comes out CLEAN! It even takes off all the paint...

I'll probably make my own cabinet out of "raw" steel for my blaster though. I've used several different ones over the years and was never happy with any of them, so I'll design my own.......

 

Show off!.....

 

You could have one too! It only cost me $1,000 in 1997.............

 

I actually have small tumbler and the media..........but its for brass cartridge cleaning, so re-loads look like new rounds.

 

I've got a buddy that has one for brass. They are very similar, mines just on steroids...lol

Mine sure takes the work out of cleaning small greasy parts. I've saved 4, 5 gallon buckets of nuts, bolts, and small brackets etc, and spent the last couple of weeks running them all through the tumbler. I don't think I'll ever have to buy another bolt, nut, or washer for the rest of my life!

 

I have buckets of fasteners, one fab shop I worked for just decided to throw out all their old hardware from the bolt bins.........guess where it wound up.

 

Don, you found a new place to live?