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I so detest using the pot blaster, and am spoiled to the blast cabinet. Wondering if you guys have ever rigged something up to enable getting big (longer) stuff in your cab's. For example, was thinking you could cut a piece of plywood to fit the door with a large hole in it, then tape a big pieces of plastic to seal the hole and to fit around, say a running board. Blast one end, swap it around, and blast the other. What do you guys think?

What about a framework of 1/2" pvc pipe wrapped with a tarp or polyviz?
It would break down for easy storing but easy to pop up as well.

Allen, don't you have a Skat-Blast cabinet?? I haven't checked on price but "extensions" can be purchased.

...extensions defeat my new procedures. If it don't go in what I got, then it needs to go to someone else!!!!

I recently picked up some stuff I had bought from a guy in Indiana. I noticed he had a very long blasting cabinet. He showed he that he started out with a good 3' cabinet. He then bought a cheap HF cabinet and he stuck the two together to where he has about 5 1/2 feet of usable space. The two were very close to the same in dimensions and he bolted them together. A person could easily bolt a couple of HF cabinets together. Or even 3 if you need a super long cabinet.

Good ideas guys.

Yes Alvin, I do have the blast cabinet. I need to check if a longbed running board would fit. 3 HF cab's might be less expensive than the skatblast extension. Might even be able to break them partially down like Caso's idea.

1/2 in PVC will not hold any weight. Move up to at least 2in then you can cut/glue any angle you need and it will support much, much more weight.

I can think of a dozen ways to set up a temp cabinet for one off parts. I did a frame with a pressure washer and a blasting tip and sand.. 100% safe and good results.

Give me a break dude. 1/2 in pvc will stand up to 2 in of snow on a pvc tarp stretched over a 20' 1/2'pvc 'quonset' style tent. I've made several temporary spaces out of AgBag and 1/2" pvc large enough to park a car in and work on. Making a blast area would be childs play.
2" is for those faint of heart with no faith in their engineering skills....

I have a KELCO blast cabinet I picked up used for $200 it is 90" wide. 3 large spotlights inide it and a dust extraction system as well.

Like usual, I'm way overthinking this. I could take a 4X8 sheet of plywood, set it on 2 of those body stands that hold 500 #'s drill 4 holes in each corner to hold a pvc/tarp enclosure including a 1' X 2' site glass, gloves, a vacuum vent, a filtered air inlet, a hole in the middle with a simple flap that I can stop ever now and then to let the compressor rest and to dump media into a 5 gallon bucket underneath that also had an adaptor to feed the blast nozzle. Heck I could make it tall enough to hold a hood ! Then would only need to outsource cab and frame. Why wouldn't that work? It is a real pain in the butt here to take something to the blaster....and he is very proud of his work. This way I can just hit it, when I have some time.

Maybe run a second piece of plywood up the back to mount lights and vent hoses to, but you have the idea and I think your reasoning could not be any sounder.
In truth letting it just fall to the ground and catching it on a tarp works just fine. Especially if the wind is just right... Sweep or vac it up and screen it and go again. Makes the cab and frame doable as well.