Blast Cabinet Makeover

[duke46]

After years of fighting the two hoses in my old Eastwood blast cabinet I came up with idea and it seems to work really well It was one of the FB guys that suggested using one and he was correct I did have to elongate the top roller because of the sizes of my hoses. I used the 2000 to 2500 lb Fairlead because the next size up was way to large for what I needed. If you want to look at one the you can go to Harbor Freight and it along with the next size up will be on display with the winches but you can't buy it. It comes with the winch.

Finding the smaller one was not easy but I did find it on line at Home Depot. Some of their stores may even have them in stock?
Looks like the smaller one cost more? But here is what I bought. I had ask what the center to center on the bolt hole were and was told 4.5" and that was the size I needed for my project.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rugged-Ridg ... lsrc=aw.ds

Amazon listed this one from the measurements I had taken at Harbor Freight then its the larger one.
https://www.amazon.com/VIPER-ATV-UTV-Ro ... f0&hvadid=

I did seal off over half of the air holes on the back of my cabinet and my vacuum system is working great and doing what is needed and no media comes out of the hole where I mounted the rollers

Boy I hope I can get my picture to upload and if not I will have to figure another way to do it?? I have never had any problems in the past posting pictures. I posted it to my FB page so just maybe this will work?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

https://imgur.com/a/78hori5

[duke46]

After years of fighting the two hoses in my old Eastwood blast cabinet I came up with idea and it seems to work really well It was one of the FB guys that suggested using one and he was correct I did have to elongate the top roller because of the sizes of my hoses. I used the 2000 to 2500 lb Fairlead because the next size up was way to large for what I needed. If you want to look at one the you can go to Harbor Freight and it along with the next size up will be on display with the winches but you can't buy it. It comes with the winch.

Finding the smaller one was not easy but I did find it on line at Home Depot. Some of their stores may even have them in stock?
Looks like the smaller one cost more? But here is what I bought. I had ask what the center to center on the bolt hole were and was told 4.5" and that was the size I needed for my project.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rugged-Ridg ... lsrc=aw.ds

Amazon listed this one from the measurements I had taken at Harbor Freight then its the larger one.
https://www.amazon.com/VIPER-ATV-UTV-Ro ... f0&hvadid=

I did seal off over half of the air holes on the back of my cabinet and my vacuum system is working great and doing what is needed and no media comes out of the hole where I mounted the rollers

Boy I hope I can get my picture to upload and if not I will have to figure another way to do it?? I have never had any problems in the past posting pictures.



https://imgur.com/a/78hori5

[migger49]

That's a clever idea! Nice

[duke46]

That's a clever idea! Nice

Thanks. I am still fine tuning it a little. The cooler weather made the hoses just a little stiffer but seems to work better than having the same hoses in the cabinet for sure.