From: Bruce Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 16:56:56 PDT
> I bought a unit from Grangers a long time ago. I believe it was called a cadilac,
> or that was used inthe description. This looks like a shop vac. Along the side of
> the hose with a brush atatchement on the end, is a tube which carries the sand to
> the nozzel inside the brush attachment. the other end of the tube goes down to a
> resevoir in the bottom of the vac. Sand shoots out of the nozzle but is sucked
> back along with the debris into the vac. A bucket at the top of the vac catches
> the lighter debris and the sand goes on down to the resevoir and then back out
> again. This works reasonably well on small to medium areas, and might work better
> on larger areas if I got some better shot.
I am just using plain old blasting sand.
Bruce MVPA 23824
> Speaking of which, A few listers have mentioned doing sand blasting on
> their MVs. Does anyone have thoughts on the types of units available as in
> hand heldish which would allow you to recover the old sand and re-use it vs
> a big unit with a nozzle and you sweep/vacuum up the sand and dispose of it
> after the blasting?
>
> Paul
> MVPA 24986
> '53 REO M35 Fire Conversion
> '53 AEC Chevy 3/4 Ton
>
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