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Understand Dustless Blasting Equipment and Benefits

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Willys Jeep Rescue: Popcorn's Frame Gets SANDBLASTED!! RESULTS ARE AWESOME!

What happens here

The blasting professionals from Piedmont Dustless Blasting NC explain their system. They specify that while 'dustless blasting' uses water and rust inhibitors, they will be performing 'dust blasting' (dry blasting) on the Jeep frame because they are in an open field, eliminating concerns about dust affecting neighbors or nearby objects. They also highlight that they use crushed bottle glass (recycled beer bottles) as the abrasive media, adhering to EPA regulations that prohibit the use of sand due to the harmful silica dust it produces. The equipment consists of a 50-horsepower Kohler diesel-powered rotary air compressor, an air dryer to remove moisture from the air (crucial for dry blasting), a moisture separator, a blast pot for holding the glass media, and a 150-gallon water tank with an air-powered pump (though water is not used for this specific job). The entire system is self-contained and mobile, requiring only fuel and media.

Goal: The blasting professionals explain their dustless blasting system, detailing its components and the advantages of their method, including media choice and safety.

Tools and materials

  • 150-Gallon Water Tank
  • Air Dryer
  • Air-Powered Water Pump
  • Blast Hoses (100 ft)
  • Blast Pot
  • Moisture Separator
  • Various Blast Tips
  • Crushed Bottle Glass (Recycled)
  • Diesel Fuel

What they say

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alright guys here's what we're working with you guys are Piedmont dustless blasting NC is that right okay you have a website Piedmont dustless blasting NC calm that's us alright cool so the system you have is called a dustless blasting system you saw this on TV is that right and got your own business exactly yeah awesome got interested watching the hot rod shows and Dennis gage got to promoting this things Dennis gauges that guy with the great big mustache on the classic my classic cars yeah I was always curious about the dustless blasting system now we've got the system here we're going to take you around we'll show you how it works we'll talk about the cost we'll put it to work on the Jeep but actually you won't use dustless blasting on the Jeep today you'll use the the dust blasting in other words you won't use the water with the Jeep why is that well being out in the field out here we don't have to use water okay that way we like to use rust inhibitor anything gotcha and make a mess on your tractor guys with the water system we'll use completely dry have to worry about neighbors anything with the dust out here and got nothing poisonous coming off the frame there's awesome so what he told me earlier was the dustless blasting is more over for a guy in a neighborhood say you've gotten old jeep or an old truck or an old car you're restoring and you're in a neighborhood and you need to keep that dust down we're out in the middle of the country so the dust really doesn't matter so much the tractor is probably going to get soaked with us we're gonna fly the drone up in the air and fly it through the dust we'll have a little bit of fun but it's a little more expensive to run the dust list since you have to put in rust inhibitors and stuff like that does the rest in here burial ok for the ones you know we don't use it for the concrete gotcha just using the water with it on concrete keeps the silica down that flies off concrete which causes cancer if you bring the DPI's you know okay gotcha so there are a lot of rules to deal with silica dust and breathing that stuff in and safety first pretty much exact and blasted for a lot of years and breed then a lot of bad stuff so let's get to looking at your equipment real quick this is a 50 horsepower Kohler diesel powered air compressor rotary gonna keep 150 pounds of pressure constant runs through the dryer when you're doing dry you'll keep the moisture out of your so this is an air dryer then we runs through the…

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