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Needing a portable blasting solution? Here are our top choices for light-weight, portable machines for low production or touch-up blasting.
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IBIX 6 Easy Blaster | Spot blasting where access with regular blasting equipment is impractical |
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IBIX 25 Portable Blaster | Spot blasting where access with regular blasting equipment is impractical |
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Clemco Power Blast Suction Blast Abrasive Blasting Gun | Portable alternative to a full blast pot. Great for limited access work e.g., jobs such as touch up or accessible by scaffold only. |
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Schmidt ® Multi-Media Industrial Soda Blaster | Blasting with fine, lightweight, or difficult to meter abrasives e.g., bicarb soda, fine aluminum oxide, plastic blasting media. |
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| IBIX 6 Easy Blaster | IBIX 25 Portable Blaster | Clemco Power Blast Suction Blast Abrasive Blasting Gun | Schmidt ® Multi-Media Industrial Soda Blaster | |
| Best Scenarios | Spot blasting where access with regular blasting equipment is impractical | Spot blasting where access with regular blasting equipment is impractical | Portable alternative to a full blast pot. Great for limited access work e.g., jobs such as touch up or accessible by scaffold only. | Blasting with fine, lightweight, or difficult to meter abrasives e.g., bicarb soda, fine aluminum oxide, plastic blasting media. |
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Not every job has good access – your job may be meters up a scaffold or through a narrow manhole. Not every job will be conducive to using a conventional abrasive blasting setup – an occupied building or an operational factory. For these challenging tasks, a BlastOne portable blaster can often make the undoable, doable. In addition to being used for corrosion control purposes, BlastOne portable blasters can assist with other tasks e.g., removal of coating for non-destructive testing, removal of coating prior to welding.
The most common issue with portable blasters is the lack of productivity compared to conventional blasting systems. This needs to be taken into consideration when scoping a blasting project where portable blasting equipment is being considered for use. This may require scheduling multiple operators for a project, that if using conventional equipment, would have only required one blaster.
Nozzle life on portable blasters also needs to be kept in mind. They are only available in tungsten carbide which, if used to operating silicon nitride nozzles, may not provide expected nozzle life.
The main consideration in choosing a portable blaster is whether any lifting equipment e.g., crane or goods lift, is available to get the equipment to the work site. For example, the IBX25 blaster weighs 45 kg and if you fill it with a bag of garnet (25 kg) the combined weight is 70 kg. If this has to manually lifted, it is well in excess of safe carrying loads. In this instance it may be better to select the IBX6 unit or the Power Blast gun.
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