Steve~
Yes, I will be carving "Live" at the show. There will be a small video camera mounted in the cabinet and a video screen up where others can see what I am doing if there are too many up close.
As "Stunt Engraver" Dave said it is not messy or very intrusive.
In fact the cabinets that A Balst makes are very clean. The cabinet is a self circulating design that once you put abrasive in the cabinet the only time you need to deal with it again is to replace what has been pulled into the filter or to change the size of grit.
You turn on the air supply, the valve in the pressure pot closes and then you do your carving (aka blasting) and if you run out of abrasive you just turn off the air supply and the abrasive falls back in the pressure pot. Once the abrasive is back in the pot you just turn the air back on and start carving again.
A pressure pot design may not mean a lot to you but in simple terms there is a container that the abrasive is in that is pressurized and then the pressurized abrasive is added to another stream of pressurized air. It uses less psi to do the work as compared to a siphon design that sucks the abrasive into a stream of pressurized air.
The air compressor can be a lot noisy but if a small compressor is used that can be cut down a bit. Although it will run almost constantly.
Oh the cabinet I will be using has the filter built on the back of the cabinet and all one piece. At 450 CFM the filter sounds like a small jet engine! But we guys love the feeling of power! Who wouldn't want the sound of a jet roaring in the shop? Hahahaha! Russ
Epilog 32EX 35 watt, A-Blast 36" Blasting cabinet, Freehand MX, PhotoShop CS, 15 years of Graphic Design
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