Media blasting question?

[Guest]

For those of you that are outsourcing your media blasting, if you dont mind me asking, how much an hour are you being charged?

[CRAVED]

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my local is $140 an hour

[panheadstan]

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I send my parts to a sandblaster, it usually comes out to about 60/hr,then i hit in my cabinet to even out. His is a commercial blaster. If parts arent too bad I do them myself at 60/hr.

[wiseguyz]

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$50/hr.

[Guest]

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Thanks guys that gives me an idea of where we are at...........the reason I am asking is our guy that was fairly cheap just went to $110hr plus it is more than a 60mi round trip so 120mi per load, the other guy that is close to me is at $200hr aaaaaagggggggghhhhhhh.

Ok my next couple of questions are what is the diff between SCFM AND CFM and what kind of pressures and CFM does it take to strip powder coating (like factory rims) fairly easily/quickly......we are looking at a compressor that has 27.5 SCFM @ 175PSI does anyone know if that is enough to blast (and remove) powder coating for extended periods of time?

We have a cabnet right now with a pressure pot but not enough compressor to do more than a light cleanup/profile blast with A.O.

[Guest]

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my blast cabinet requires 30 scfm, my compressor is 90scfm the size of the tank dictates the 'extended' period. you need at least a 60 preferably 80 gallon tank.

[Guest]

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you can get a calculation worksheet @ http://www.gaeicc.com/conversion_factors.htm just fill in the blanks it does the math for you.

[70gcode]

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I charge $135 per hour in shop and $155 per hour mobile. It make a difference being able to offer one stop shopping. Also I do not have to wait for the blaster.

[Guest]

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sandblasting sucks i hate standing there doing it

[Guest]

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sandblasting sucks i hate standing there doing it

you got that right +1000 on that lol but I figure with the right combo it wont be as bad or take as long vs what it is costing us to out source especially with those prices going up.

[tedsfab]

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i hate blasting also , but unfortunatly there is basically no one in my area that does it

[Guest]

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i hate blasting also , but unfortunatly there is basically no one in my area that does it

That could be a good thing

[tedsfab]

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Juan]

i hate blasting also , but unfortunatly there is basically no one in my area that does it

That could be a good thing

thats 1 of my plains to do , going to put up a small building just to do blasting. then higher some cheap labor to do it .

[tedsfab]

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nah .... i like to be legit, and besides the local potatoe farm already has all the cheap labor helping them , i was thinking maybe some high schooler .... or talk my father into retirement so he can just help me full time

[Guest]

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nah .... i like to be legit, and besides the local potatoe farm already has all the cheap labor helping them , i was thinking maybe some high schooler .... or talk my father into retirement so he can just help me full time

That's usually a pretty good option from what I've experience. Find some good kid out of high school that has decent work ethic and wants to make a few bucks, then teach him some basic working skills before heading to college or getting a 'real job' and it's a win-win situation,