Mi-T-M pressure washer

[rjs89ia]

It's a bit overkill but I picked up a new to me 3500psi 3.3gpm heated pressure washer for a fair price. It's a pretty hefty industrial grade piece that should work very well for what I bought it for.

I do need to replace the heat exchanger and a few other pieces to make the heating portion of it work.

After installing a new battery and cables the electric start option worked great and the honda engine fired right up.

 

[rjs89ia]

The plan is to use the pressure washer to wet blast my chevelle, the chassis, and rearend using a siphon sand blasting attachment.

This option seemed a lot easier than using the conventional sandblaster I bought from harbor freight. I gave up on that after about 10 mins.

I would like to utilize the pressure pot of the sandblaster though so I can positively feed the blasting tip verses relying on the supplied siphon.

 

[Indycars]

Definitely shoot some pics when you get some results, would love to see how it nice it works.

 

[Grumpy]

while it looks potentially very promising,
let us know what you find after using it for awhile,
and how you feel about the equipment purchase after you've used it a few times.

 

[rjs89ia]

while it looks potentially very promising,
let us know what you find after using it for awhile,
and how you feel about the equipment purchase after you've used it a few times.

I will do that for sure. I watched a few videos online and it looks to work pretty effectively. From that I could tell it is not as messy as a conventional sandblaster and no worry about silicosis or panel warpage.

Thankfully I work with a guy that use to have a dustless blasting system, so he pointed me in the right direction for a rust inhibitor that can be added to the water as you spray. It's a product called holdtight 102 that can be mixed in a variety of ratios depending on what your working on.

 

[Grumpy]

why not post a short video if you can, pointing out the proper use,of the tool.
and the advantages of using that rust preventative product,
with the tool once youve worked with it a few times.
the vast majority of the people have not used that equipment or seen its advantages.

 

[rjs89ia]

why not post a short video if you can, pointing out the proper use,of the tool.
and the advantages of using that rust preventative product,
with the tool once youve worked with it a few times.
the vast majority of the people have not used that equipment or seen its advantages.

Not a bad idea grumpy that'll give my gopro camera a chance to do its job since I've stopped racing. I might even be able to mount it to the spray wand for a close up point of view.