NorthStar High-Pressure Abrasive Blasting Kit - 3500 Max. PSI
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Wet sand blasting kit
Recently purchased this kit & couldnt be happier. Arrived in good time & proved to be a good solid unit.
It pumps plenty of dry builders sand through the tip and easily removed the rust & paint from my old ride-on mower cutting decks. Within minutes the deck was back to nice clean white metal & once dry I was able to stick weld straight on to it & make repairs! I only needed one 20 kg bag of sand to do the whole job.
It is one of the cheapest complete kits on the market but it is excellent quality.
No instruction is required to use this tool. just stick the pickup tube in the sand & pull the pressure lance trigger! I will recomend this kit to friends.
Gregb.
April 25, 2013
Abrasive Blasting Kit
Even with all its faults, this unit works so well that I will never go back to blasting with compressed air. My pressure washer is 2700psi & 3.7gpm, and that was plenty to get good results. I managed to strip a set of rusty steel truck wheels using one tank of gas and one bag of sand. Based on previous reviews I was worried about sand clogging in the feed tube because of the dampness in the air up here in the Pacific NW, but even though it was misting out when I used the blaster the sand kept flowing well, EXCEPT when chunks bigger than the nozzle orifice got sucked up [my fault for not sifting cheap sand], at which point the backpressure from the washer flowed out the suction tube and blew it loose from the wand, which answered my question why the hose attachment doesn't have a barb. One other annoyance is that the unit I received uses a quick connect for the water inlet, unlike the photo on the website. Seems like a good idea, but it means that its hard to keep the sand suction hose rotated above the nozzle, which is important for keeping the sand dry, and those brass quick connect fittings don't appear to be designed to take much side loading. One reviewer noted that the replacement nozzle was expensive; after 3 bags of sand all I notice is that the black oxide in the bore is gone, I don't expect nozzle wear would be an issue for non-commercial users.
April 23, 2013
no more dust.
Work real good ,even with my 2.3 gpm.I use black diamond media.Will try with regular sand next time.
April 23, 2013
NorthStar High-Pressure Abrasive Blasting Kit
Works great with common play sand. Just be sure to screen or sift out ANY rocks, pebbles, or trash larger than nozzle outlet. Removed paint and rust with ease.
Just use dry sifted sand. Metal house screen work good to prepare your sand.
Great product!
April 12, 2013
NorthStar High-Pressure Abrasive Blasting Kit
This is a great item. It is superior to any other sand blaster I have ever used. Dust residue is non-existent.
The only negative aspect is the expense of the replacement tips.
August 13, 2012
It's the Hose!
It took me a couple of days to figure this out but I finally did. This unit is hooked up to my 3000psi washer and i was using it at full bore. I found that if I didnt scale it back to about 2000 psi, the hose would collapse and stop sand flow. This worked OK but a definate lack of shock and awe to be sure. I then went the other way and got a sand feed hose that woudlnt collapse and this thing took off! I use Quikrete commercial grade medium or fine sand from the local Home Store. Once the hose stopped collapsing the sand flowed up the hose and out the nozzle like a real blaster. I stripped a car frame to bare metal in 15 minutes on 2800psi. It sucked almost half the bag of medium sand but what a job. I would not recommend this for exterior finishes as the pounding from the sand is very hard and will definately stretch the thin steel on car shells. But on other projects, wow.
May 11, 2012
Works great!
I bought this to strip the paint of of a 12' flat bed on a vintage truck and it worked great! I used the coarsest sand recommended and I was able to finish it in maybe 20-45 minutes. The only problem was between the pressure washer wand and the sand blaster wand it was a little awkward to get into the little spaces but I was able to work around that.
February 9, 2012
Saves lots and lots of time
This is the best thing since sliced bread.
I do powder coating and need to blast wheels and motorcycle frames fast. This cuts the time down to 20-30% of what I spent before with a blast cabinet or small pressure pot. Less problems with stopped up hoses and no problem with breathing dust. I am using 3500 or 4000 psi washers. I am guessing that you need at least a 3000 psi machine. Don't know for sure, just guessing.
This is worth 5 times what I paid for it.
January 29, 2012
good tool
Works great. Easier with 2 people one to watch the siphon tube and mix it up so the sand has a constant flow.
January 16, 2012
Satisfied Customer
I like this sandblasting attachment for my pressure washer. My only advice would be to pay attention to the size of the sand that you are using. I started out using too large of sand and it clogged up the hose. Once I remoed all of the larger sand and downsized to the appropriate size, the wand worked very good.
October 11, 2011
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