Clamshell Pressure Pot Blast Cabinet with Upgraded Vacuum

I used a Harbor Freight siphon hose type blast cabinet for several years in my home/hobby shop. Poor lighting, the cabinet filled with dust almost immediately, and the gun/hose/nozzle clogged frequently. I bought the REPP70 Pressure Pot Blast Cabinet, and wow what a difference. It’s foot pedal operated. Over the past couple of weeks I have blasted dozens of small parts - fan blades, pulleys, air cleaner assemblies, brackets, etc - the cabinet and opening could accommodate an engine block if needed. My first time using this cabinet I blasted parts to bare metal in an hour that would have taken me 4-hours or more in the past, and they would have come out nowhere nearly as clean. I literally took before and after pictures and timed this. I wanted to know the value of the money I had just spent; it’s worth every penny. The cabinet is well lit. The vacuum keeps it clear, and your work piece is clearly visible. Not a single clog. The cabinet does what I need it to do quickly and efficiently.

I bought this cabinet almost 2 years ago. Mine actually has the covered filter motor but other than that looks the same. It’s a great cabinet, however I did not do enough research before purchasing, we are a small manufacturing business and totally underestimated how much we would actually use the blaster, we work the dog out of it and we have run through a few parts keeping it running, this isn’t the fault of the machine. We will be upgrading soon but one point that is very important, the customer service from Redline, it’s been outstanding, they have everything we’ve broke in stock and shipped out very quickly, the support guys are very friendly and stay in gauged until our issues have been addressed. I can’t say enough good things about Redline service and as for this particular machine it is a work horse but if your working if 5-7 hours a day be prepared to clean the catch bucket every 3hrs or it’s a bear to unbuckle and hold up at the same time, also there is no back flow on the filter so that too needs to be removed and manually blown out and cleaned every 3 hrs. When comparing this to the 25k units you can decide if the huge price difference vs cleaning requirements is worth it. We have our guys shoot for 2.5 hrs, take a break, clean the machine then work another 2.5 and clean again then call it a day. So we get 5hrs of blasting done which works for us. I might mention the parts we have gone through, air hoses, window screens are kind of a pain, door shocks, the pressure pot block valve, air regulator but again a quick call to Redilne and they had what needed in the mail and to us with in a few days.

I bought the pressure pot model last may, it’s been a very good machine. Like you said it took a bit to fine tune it but once we got it dialed, it’s held up great. We bought the unit with the mindset of lite industrial duty but the projects quickly became more demanding and we questioned weather the cabinet was going to handle 100lbs flanges going in and out all day… so far it’s holding up great.