Excellent article and photos Geoff - I've often thought about buying a media blasting cabinet, but clearly the bench top units have some shortcomings as you've discovered. Look forward to any updates.

Jeff.

Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England

Even the industrial cabinets have their shortcomings, I have a floor standing Vixen pressure pot unit its over 6 feet tall and big enough to take a wheel it does an excellent job and has a built in powered dust extractor, but it uses arm length rubber gauntlets, these tend to perish very quickly and usually have to be replaced every time I want to use it, and if you keep a few spare pairs in storage they perish as well, I have yet to find any other type of glove long enough to use with it!

Location: Pembrokeshire

Location: Oxfordshire

Thank you for the link Austin, the 600 mm red/ black ones look ideal for the job, I will be ordering a pair of them tomorrow and they are only a couple of quid more than the one that I have been using, but should last a lot longer.

Location: Pembrokeshire

Hi Geoff,
I've had the same cabinet, I lended up using tape to seal around the door to help control the dust. I've since update to the larger floor standing model and found by using a vacuum cleaner ( with lots of filtering) connected to it helps to control the dust issues

Location: Nz

Location: Oxfordshire

A pal of mine made an excellent sand blasting cabinet out of the rear part of a Reliant Robin van!