Deve & Alvin -- Concur with all above. I, too, have the TP Skatblast. Been using mine for nearly 15 years and love it. Hambone uses it about as much as I do ... he can speak for himself about it, but I think he likes it, too. At anyrate, I started out going cheap with the HF blaster and quickly decided to move up to a big boy tool.
Like all said above, if you are working on a restoration, or are planning on doing a fair amount of refinishing, a quality blast cabinet is a must. Go big early. Go bigger. Get as big a cabinet as you can afford, and then, go a bit bigger. You'll thank us down the road.
I sold my pressure pot sand blaster at the consignment auction a few years back. It was a HF one anyway. And haven't looked back. If it doesn't fit in the cabinet but needs to be blasted, I happily break out the dollar gun and fire away. Suiting up and running the sand blaster ... sux. I think my personal record for continuous blasting is about 4 minutes (enough sand, enough air pressure & volume, no clogs, clear visor on my hood and no equipment breakage)
