Blake, I still vote spending/using your money where it will reward you later maybe even make you a few dollars. I just happened to be in Tractor Supply today to get some plastic covers for my bead blasting cabinet and noticed a 20 gal pressurized pot on wheels for 130 bucks. It would probably hold 100 lb bag of sand. Comes with 8ft hose, funnel etc etc. As for air compressor there are many opinions. I can only tell you what I did. Mine is a 80gal professional tank, 175psi and 17.9 CFM. It really does a nice job and would "catch up" when I did a chassis recently. I got it from Sears 4 years ago for $805 Total. I do not know what one would cost today but it would be cost effective. I checked locally on the guy that is considered to be as good as you get and he charges $75 and hour for sandblasting and $150 and hour for soda blasting but told me he planned to go up some the first of the year. His prices did include the sand/soda so you can quickly see what it would cost to do what you want. If you can stand the outlay I say buy you a good compressor and blasting pot. You will pick up the "knack" of blasting pretty quick. AS an added thought for everyone I have a 2hp Ingersolrand 20 gal tank that I thought about "teeing" in to my blast pot to help the big one out if I needed to. A friend of mine has that set up but he says it rarely has to kick in as his big one,same as mine, handles it pretty good. The choice is yours and you know what you can stand and spend more than anyone but I promise you it is money well spent. I now have folks wanting ME to do blasting for them!!
