Clamshell Pressure Pot Blast Cabinet with Upgraded Vacuum

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.

I landed a production run contract, my current system was not capable of keeping up so I started looking for better solutions. There are many production level units on the markets and they are quite expensive, because I’m a smaller guy I thought it would be better to looks at “a step down” .. I bought this unit, set it up had one issue that customer service was very helpful with ( I didn’t attach the nozzle properly) then started working with it. I can’t not see how the higher price units could be anymore effective. The build quality it took notch and the hardware/components are same. This is a very well built and operating unit, I’m blasting flanges, on the old unit one flange took 18-20min, I was doing them in 7-8min last night. I’m very excited my production time has greatly increased ergo my profits. This isn’t a cheap purchase but what you get for the price is amazing. This unit and this company score a 10 from me.