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Andy Dingley Andy Dingley is offline
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Default Wet sand blaster

On Nov 30, 6:49*pm, "The Medway Handyman" davidno-spam-
wrote:

You need a big FO machine to effectively run a wet sand blaster. *200bar @
20 lts/min or above IME.


20 l / min @ 200 bar. Now that _is_ big!


I'd say about 30 l / min actually (but not quite that pressure) A
pressure pot can be used usefully with a 10l/min compressor, but
you're not getting the same sand delivery rate. If you have small
enough nozzles, you can even throttle back to a rate that allows
continuous running, still on a D-I-Y compressor. Bigger nozzles though
need enough airflow to keep the sand moving, so you're limited to an
intermittent duty cycle.