XJsavage
CounterCulture
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2009
- Location
- Lyle's Ford SC
Crazy you bring that up, because we do similar. Our Waterjet uses 80 mesh garnet while the sandblast can use up to 30 mesh. A lot of commercial/industrial sandblasters use silica sand, which is actually toxic and for the most part, one time use. For the sake and health of our blasters, we use only garnet. We do sometimes use the 80 with sandblasting since the usage rate is 2:1 sandblast vs Waterjet. I happened to be filling in for our our sandblaster who was on vacation in FL early last week. Luckily he had run out of fresh 30/60 and what was left in the pot was 7th or 8th run sand, so it was mostly "half fluff".Ha…I actually do know that feeling then. I used to do most of the blasting in my dads small shop. To ‘save money’…we’d filter and dry the used garnet from the waterjet and use that as last media. Oh, by the way, the gloves/sleeves were no longer connected, so if you weren’t paying attention they’d fall down to my elbow. Never got myself that badly though.
Still, that mishap I had was WHILE wearing long sleeves.