I got me a sandblaster, and after reading the reviews on it, made a few mods and it worked great. I wrote a lengthy post on it this morning just to have the thread disapear before it posted. so this is a short version. It was on sale from $179 dollers to $129 dollers then I had a 20% off coupon. So it only cost me about $100 bucks.
It's the bigger one that holds 110 pounds of sand or what ever you load it with.
After reading the reviews and making the suggested modifacations this this is really the cats meow, if you know what I mean. The most important thing is to sift everything you intend on putting through the sandblaster, through a screen.
If you get the play sand from Lows it works fine if you put it through a screen.
I did however buy some of this 44 lbs. Black Aluminum Oxide Abrasive, 70 Grit.
And this stuff worked great, it has a primmer look to it after my 70 pick up was blasted.
If it was not for a few little dings that need attention, the driver side could be primmered wet sanded and painted. My son and I did the drivers side of the truck in about 30 minutes. I keeped feeling the metal to see if it was hot so it would not warp the metal. It never got hot at all and looks great. I guess no one ever stipped the paint from the truck before, there were 3 differant colors and then a primmer on the bottom. This thing made short work of the 4 paints that were on the truck. If it were not for the guys that took thier time to write the reviews, then told you how to make some easy modifactions, it may have not gone so smooth. I should have gotten on of these things years ago. Now I am looking forward to my next project with this thing. Life is truely good. Kurt