Shot peening engine block question

[CamarosRus]

Rick, In another thread you, I and others were discussing cleaning parts in general.

Ive had all kinds of the other chassis parts, eng brkts etc etc....run through a local
shot blasting machine. What with all the massive shop time you charge customers
to stand in front of your slow glass beading machine, you need to take most of your other steel parts to the shot blaster assuming the cost is acceptable.
My shot blast guy also has a enclosed basket that I place fasteners into and then
shot blast. Ready to replate or you could quickly run thru your glass beader


Ive also bought a used MrDeBur shaker/vibrator which is another option to clean
restore metal finishes.

[SS427]

Originally Posted by CamarosRus

What with all the massive shop time you charge customers to stand in front of your slow glass beading machine

Chuck, glad to see you have analyzed how I run my business and seem to know how and what I charge our customers.

I currently use several forms of blasting for our customers; plastic, aluminum oxide, sand and shot. However, we normally do these in large quantities to keep the costs down low not to mention the drive time, fuel and labor costs to deliver and pick up. The glass beading cabinet is used primarily for small trinket parts and ones that will be dipped in paint as I do not want them to be etched. Also when we need to have something blasted immediately and cannot wait to take them to the commercial blaster.

I get your point though about wasting peoples time and money. Had it done to me a time or two.....