OEMTOOLS 24815 Sandblasting Cabinet for Bench Top, 24 Gallon Sand Blaster, Remove Paint Rust Oxidation, Sandblast Cabinet with Built-in Exhaust, Durable Steel Construction

Great cabinet, shipped from Texas to remote island town in Alaska in perfect condition, no bent legs on it. No leaks, put it together and works great! Specially for the price. Highly recommended

This is a fair tabletop sandblasting cabinet. The downsides are the poor build quality allowing media to shoot out at bad seams. Also the gloves are fairly cheap and showing extreme wear after light usage.In the picture you can see where a leg is pried enough to allow media to escape. The box was undamaged so I can only assume it was packaged like this.Despite the flaws, it's an easy starter cabinet. You'll need a good compressor to run with it, and maybe replace the hoses with slightly longer ones.

This tool serves my need well, which is to bead blast small aluminum parts (roughly 9"x4.5"x2") before anodizing. If you want to sandblast the rust off a V-8 exhaust manifold, this probably is not the tool for you. The supply hoses feed into the work space from the right-front, and of course you have to stick your hands in from the front to hold the part and manipulate the air gun. Effectively, this limits the usable volume of the cabinet to a cube in the left-rear corner - a space roughly 16" wide by 12" high and 12" deep. Which is fine for what I am doing, but probably not big enough for an exhaust manifold.The internal light is not spectacular, but it is helpful. I had no problems with dust inside or outside the cabinet, but then bead blasting clean aluminum does not create the sort of dust that more aggressive blast media and rusty iron would create. The cabinet has two filtered vents - one on the back and one on the right side. It appears that the vent on the right side is intended to allow something like a shop-vac to be connected, but you will have to fabricate some sort of adapter yourself in order to connect a vacuum hose. Quite literally, there is nothing on the outside of this filtered vent but a hole.The blast media I am using is #10 glass beads. These beads range in size from 3.5 mils to 5.9 mils, which is finer than granulated sugar. I was doubtful about the media feed system (depends completely on the Bernoulli effect), but this media feeds just fine.Pro's - The plexiglass window in the lid is protected on the underside by a stick-on sheet of (vinyl?) plastic. The manufacturer included 9 spare sheets.Con's - The seams of the cabinet itself are neither dust tight nor #10 glass bead tight. The manufacturer seals some of the seams with silicon sealer, but for some reason did not seal the bottom seams on the back and front panels of my cabinet. I had to do that. As mentioned by other reviewers, the packing of this item is inadequate. Some have complained about bent feet. The feet on my cabinet were fine, but at some point it had been dropped on the left end, which caused the light switch housing to indent the left side. I beat the dent back out with a block of wood and a hammer, but the left side does continue to show some damage. The manufacturer needs to work on better packing for shipping.Overall, I gave this item a 4 star rating because it performs well for me in the specific (and somewhat limited) application I have. For me, this was an economical solution to my need.

Works amazing compared to the little cheap one from harbor freight. Oddly a leg was bent which seems to be a common problem but doesn't effect me much

It blows sand and dust from every crack in the unit. Filled my shop with dust. Huge health Hazzard.

Purchased this unit. After waiting 12 days for it to arrive, came with one leg bent. Need to use so we straightened the leg, placed media inside. Noticed that the media was all over the floor so we tightened all screws,nuts, bolts. The next day noticed that the media is now coming out from around the looking glass. Would not recommend purchasing this unit.

Just started using it. Seems to by good quality and works well. The seams are all sealed and prevent leakage. Not very large but is the size I need for now. I put it on a rolling stand so I can move it out of the way when not being used.

It works great. Arrived in just a few days. Of the reviews I read before I purchased it, the biggest complaint was damage during shipping but mine was perfect. The only complaint I have is I wish the light was brighter. But I installed better lighting in my garage (which it really needed anyways) and that took care of the problem. All around good buy and well worth the money.