Decided we needed a few more things for the cars, including a small blasting cabinet. So looked around for a good deal, read some reviews of the Harbor Freight ones, they all seemed to be terrible, looked at the Northern Tools options, they didn't have a side opening bench top one. SO I went to the Grizzly catalog and found a decent bench top cabinet that both sides opened and it had a light for $149.99 plus $25 shipping. Its nice to have boxes show up. After getting this thing set up we have a few complaints about it. One there is NO material around the top window to seal it to the box, this allowed lots of sand to escape through the gaps. This was an easy fix, I took some 3M double sided tape I had and made a seal for around the window, adhering only the glass window down and allowing for the plastic protector covers to still be changed. Second is the doors aren't quite flat and true, so there are leaks around the door seals. This has been solved using some rubber trim bought at the local auto parts store. After doing these minor modifications the cabinet works pretty good. The gun system seems to be just small enough and the gloves, once you're use to them, are a nice size and get easier to use with time. I would give this thing a 7 out of 10 just based on price and value.
Also keeping my eyes open for deals on other things that will be needed down the road I picked up some Dynapad to go under the new carpet that will come later.
hmmmm good to have boxes showing up with stuff for the car.
We took the time yesterday to get everything cleaned up and set up the blasting cabinet. Here is Trev starting on a lot of the little interior brackets and such that will be cleaned, blasted, primed and painted. I know they will never been seen again, but I will know they were done right and the car is perfect even under the interior panels. You can clearly see where the cabinet is leaking in this pic but it has all been resolved now. Also Trevor is a huge allergy baby, so I picked him up a nice mask off the clearance table at NAPA the other day.
I'll have some more progress posted later today.