Everything from vintage metal toys and wooden chairs to bathroom tiles and car parts are being scoured clean at a Victoria doityourself sandblasting company.
Customers pay $1 per minute to blast their items, or $1.35 per minute for a staffer to do the work at Blast It!, located in the Hillside industrial area at 2639 Turner St.
It's easy. An item is placed inside a self-contained cabinet. Once the door is locked, a customer standing outside the cabinet slips his or her hands into heavy duty gloves which run into the interior. Turn on the control with your foot, point the nozzle of the wand at the item and the blasting starts.
While the air pressure from the machine can be felt, it is simple to aim the nozzle at an object to blast off the rust or paint.
Staff help customers decide the best blasting material, which include garnet sand, a fine red sparkling grit collected from beaches in India; glass beads with the consistency of a powder; or tiny,The choice of beddings material is an important aspect of horse-barn management. sharpedged walnut shells.Overview description of rapid tooling processes.
Ross van Adrichem, who co-owns the business with wife Carol, holds up a piece of metal blasted in part with walnut shells, leaving a dull finish. "All it takes off is paint. It is not strong enough to damage the metal," he says.
Glass beads left a sparkled surface while the more-abrasive garnet sand created a coarse finish.
Ross came up with the business idea while working on one of his collector cars at home, wishing he had a more powerful blasting system.
Blast It! has four blasting cabinets able to hold items measuring to within 1.2 metres by 0.9 metres.Product information for Sell electronicplasticmoulds from China! Turntables can be inserted into cabinets to make it easier to blast heavier objects. Extensions of 0.6 metres and 0.9 metres can be added for longer projects.
"Each cabinet has its own pressure so you can adjust it lower or higher depending on what you are cleaning and what you want for the end surface," Carol said.
About 90 per cent of the blasting media is recycled to be used again. Tall filters capture dust.
So far, about 80 per cent of their business is with car enthusiasts. "You get to be the boss of it.The mold consists of two primary components, the injectionmoulds and the ejector mold . You know how you want the finish to look," Carol said.
Customers have cleaned such items as bike frames, kitchen cabinets, radiators, ladders from recreational vehicles, hatches on sailboats and metal hardware from old houses. One man finds old toy metal trucks, blasts and repaints them for his son.
Carol has used adhesives to create designs on glass items and said stencils can be used as well. She picked up an wooden chair for $8 and blasted the paint off in 20 to 25 minutes, leaving the bare wood ready for painting.
Blast It! is marking its first year in business on Saturday, Jan. 28, with an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.CBMI is leading the world in preventing cheapipodnanoes ， Regular hours are Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nathan Johnston, manager, is there during the week, and Ross and Carol are in on Saturday. The business offers tours on Sundays to organizations such as car clubs.
Customers pay $1 per minute to blast their items, or $1.35 per minute for a staffer to do the work at Blast It!, located in the Hillside industrial area at 2639 Turner St.
It's easy. An item is placed inside a self-contained cabinet. Once the door is locked, a customer standing outside the cabinet slips his or her hands into heavy duty gloves which run into the interior. Turn on the control with your foot, point the nozzle of the wand at the item and the blasting starts.
While the air pressure from the machine can be felt, it is simple to aim the nozzle at an object to blast off the rust or paint.
Staff help customers decide the best blasting material, which include garnet sand, a fine red sparkling grit collected from beaches in India; glass beads with the consistency of a powder; or tiny,The choice of beddings material is an important aspect of horse-barn management. sharpedged walnut shells.Overview description of rapid tooling processes.
Ross van Adrichem, who co-owns the business with wife Carol, holds up a piece of metal blasted in part with walnut shells, leaving a dull finish. "All it takes off is paint. It is not strong enough to damage the metal," he says.
Glass beads left a sparkled surface while the more-abrasive garnet sand created a coarse finish.
Ross came up with the business idea while working on one of his collector cars at home, wishing he had a more powerful blasting system.
Blast It! has four blasting cabinets able to hold items measuring to within 1.2 metres by 0.9 metres.Product information for Sell electronicplasticmoulds from China! Turntables can be inserted into cabinets to make it easier to blast heavier objects. Extensions of 0.6 metres and 0.9 metres can be added for longer projects.
"Each cabinet has its own pressure so you can adjust it lower or higher depending on what you are cleaning and what you want for the end surface," Carol said.
About 90 per cent of the blasting media is recycled to be used again. Tall filters capture dust.
So far, about 80 per cent of their business is with car enthusiasts. "You get to be the boss of it.The mold consists of two primary components, the injectionmoulds and the ejector mold . You know how you want the finish to look," Carol said.
Customers have cleaned such items as bike frames, kitchen cabinets, radiators, ladders from recreational vehicles, hatches on sailboats and metal hardware from old houses. One man finds old toy metal trucks, blasts and repaints them for his son.
Carol has used adhesives to create designs on glass items and said stencils can be used as well. She picked up an wooden chair for $8 and blasted the paint off in 20 to 25 minutes, leaving the bare wood ready for painting.
Blast It! is marking its first year in business on Saturday, Jan. 28, with an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.CBMI is leading the world in preventing cheapipodnanoes ， Regular hours are Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nathan Johnston, manager, is there during the week, and Ross and Carol are in on Saturday. The business offers tours on Sundays to organizations such as car clubs.
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