Sand blasting, I have a lot of stuff

[Fasterthanyou]

Well I've got everything ready for getting painted but need some help getting the parts prepped. I have a HUGE pile of things that need to be blasted.
Anybody have a blaster or a hand blaster I could borrow for a weekend (not this weekend)? I'll pay you with new blast media.
The other option is to get my own sandblasting setup. I've looked into it before and have used both a booth and gravity feed before. I've got a huge compressor and a small portable, so it's basically what do I need/want. I'd like a booth and can get them for around $150 on ebay with all that I'd need. But I want to use the blaster on my engine bay... so the gravity feed is looking more promising... aahhh the options, they're driving me nutz.
Gravity feed would be a lot cheaper and since I don't plan on doing much blasting in the future it might be the best option. Anybody with an opinion or a blaster?

[Tru2Chevy]

I know that Phil has one (he brought it over to blast Ty's valve covers), but he just left this morning for the votech national competion - Go Phil!)

He'll be back in 5 days, he might let you borrow it.....

- Justin

[HardcoreZ28]

Jon if you've got a compressor that'll pump enough air you can borrow my gravity blaster if it's for a few days. You just need to buy sand. Let me know.

[jims69camaro]

don't the equipment rental places have blasters? i think the 'johnson rents' place by me has one. couldn't be all that much to rent it for a coupla days. the only problem with that is that it's "used" equipment, and very used at that. just a thought in case you can't nail anything else down.

[Fasterthanyou]

I've got a portable compressor and am thinking about just purchasing the gravity feed blaster. They're only $30 shipped from ebay and other various online stores. I don't mind having to refill, I just want something I can start blasing with .
Paul, where do I get the media locally? I'm not going to pay the shipping on some 50lb bag of blast media, lol... that would be super stupid.
Also, what kind of prep work does the powder coating need? Bare metal? If so, I don't know when you'll be free to do some powder coating so should I leave those parts for last? I'll get you a picture tonight, I was busy trying to get my headers unbolted from the y-pipe last nite... bolts were so rusty they don't fit anything in my tool box. I need a 15/32 wrench and socket or a 13.5mm!!! Along came the air chisel and hack saw .

[HardcoreZ28]

If you're going to use sand then you can get it from the place in Bridgewater next to Costco and Pep Boys....down a side street. I think it's called Bridgewater Stone Center now. A bag of sand is like $15....make sure they give you double zero sand or it'll clog.

I need bare metal to powdercoat. Do it last if you can. If not keep the parts in your house and they should last a while hopefully without rusting.

[camaroracer1992]

i have a gravity fed crafstman ill sell to you. $20 hehe its cheaper then ebay!!!