Blast media Norfolk

[Brainsparks30]

All I can find are people who will do the job for me. This would be great for an entire project but I only need one bag at a time and postage rates are OTT.
Please, does anyone know some links to some blast media suppliers in Norfolk?

 

[brightspark]

cant tell you where but what are you blasting and what gear have you

 

[cheb]

Which medium? I got a 25kg bag of baking soda from my local bakery. It was way cheaper than blasting soda, which was nice.

 

[Gragson]

I got 25kg 177-400 glass bead about £30 delivered a while back.
How much and what grade are you looking for?

 

[brightspark]

here http://advancedproject.us/

 

[rtbcomp]

Stacey Processing will give you a good deal.

 

[Brainsparks30]

Working in awkward corners under a van, paint, rust, badly applied flaky Schultz and crappy old filler from previous hack job to remove. Ability to remove old seam sealer would be awesome.
Basic Clarke siphon gun, 3 horse Compressor and auxiliary tank. Have another comp to add on soon to boost. Really need a 3mm nozzle and found out there are no spares :/
Not sure about baking soda, I thought that was for polished finish.
Frost on ebay have the glass and iron silicate for about £16 a 25kg sack.
May well have to do.

 

[brightspark]

siphon gun wont have much power. even a pressurised pot with a good pressure wont remove seam sealer or underseal it just beds in to it

 

[Brainsparks30]

Your right, it doesn't. Still beats the stress of trying to fit a rotary tool in there. Needs plenty of patience. Ok for now.
The sealer is strange stuff, doesn't look like the PU sealer you get in a tube. Very hard. Must be some factory stuff.

 

[Al Strachan]

Would a heat gun and paint scraper tackle it? Recently did the underside of a Navara tub taking off the original sealer. Paint scraper for the big areas, knives, broken hacksaw blades, screwdrivers for the fiddly bit. Not much fun!

 

[rtbcomp]

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Frost on ebay have the glass and iron silicate for about £16 a 25kg sack.
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http://www.stacey-processing.com/shop.html

1x Pallet of 40x 25kg Bags of Crushed, Recycled Glass Abrasive (for Shot Blasting etc.)
Choice of 6x different grades: Super Fine, Fine, Medium, Medium+, Coarse & Large Coarse
Price: £150.00

Delivery: Free

Works out at £3.75 per bag

A bit cheaper than £16 per bag

You don't want glass beads for shifting coatings, they're for giving a smooth finish on clean metal.

 

[rtbcomp]

B&Q and Wickes sell crushed glass for setting paving stones &c

 

[frank horton]

or a builders merchant, KILN dried sand, various grades available........£12 @ 25kg bag the last time I bought some.......
ALWAYS kept in a shed with the bags of plaster and cement..........

 

[rtbcomp]

or a builders merchant, KILN dried sand, various grades available........£12 @ 25kg bag the last time I bought some.......
ALWAYS kept in a shed with the bags of plaster and cement..........

B&Q keep theirs outside, sopping wet when I got it home. Wickes had damp lumps in theirs. Potentially dangerous to use in blasting with compressed air, even illegal under most conditions.

 

[Al Strachan]

i get mine from homebase. Dont think its a 25kg bag, more like 20, but they keep it inside (well they do at my local), its dry as a bone and only a fiver a bag.

https://www.homebase.co.uk/kiln-dried-paving-sand-large-bag_p015481

 

[Brainsparks30]

I'm aware of the sand option and understand its not such a good idea. Whilst is does abrade well, I don't really want a lung full of it. All I can get from searches is that even a good mask wont filter all the silica. I dunno. In future I would go with air fed mask, but that is distant future...over kill for now.
I'll don't have room for more than a little media at a time, so bulk is out.
Its not proper underseal, its some kind of black coating sprayed on top of rust to hide it, which is flaking off. Comes of alright.