Grit blasting in a container

Apr 03, 2011 2 Replies
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I have a full size Hodge Clemco grit blaster - the sort used on motorway bridges and other big structures - air fed mask, hose over your shoulder and away you go.



I'd like to set up a shipping container so that for the 'smaller' stuff less than the size of a bridge the grit is confined as at the moment the clean up time exceeds the job time! My first thought are to form a heavy mesh floor over a sort of vast funnel with perhaps an auger conveyor or brush conveyor returning the grit for de-dusting and reuse.



Anyone know of similar setups I can learn from or plagiarise ?



AWEM



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I've no experience of grit blasters but did look after a wood shredding line, the output fell onto a vibrating conveyor and this coupled with 2 screens would start the cleaning process. Ours had a rotating magnet to pick up ferrous objects and drop them into a separate box.

AJH

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I found that used grit can be surprisingly reluctant to flow, and will form vertiginous cliffs sooner than do so - to the extent that I fitted my pressure pot with a small rotary vibrator to keep the stuff flowing into the mixing valve. So I think it would need a lot of small "funnels" rather than one or two wide, shallow ones.

I also found that visibility was a big problem in a confined space, so you'll need a lot of light and a seriously big dust extractor/separator, which wasn't feasible in the place I was living at the time. Now that I've got a field I could stand in the middle of, 150 yards from the house, I haven't got the blasting kit. And I'm not sure what a few tons of copper slag would do the grass.

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