Rough afternoon! Drove a little over 100 miles round trip to Harbor freight to purchase a pressure abrasive blaster. I have an old blaster cabinet, and an old grainger siphon blaster that have served me well for probably over 35 years. After reading on the internet about how great pressure pot blasters were, I made the trip, and bought the 40# unit, and bought it home. I stopped by TSC and bought 2 bags of 20/40 black diamond abrasive (which I use in my blast cabinet and the old grainger siphon unit all the time, and came home and tried it out. What a disappointment! I went through an entire 60# bag of blast media, and all it would do is plug up. Decided the thing to do was to call HF customer svc. Twice, I was told that there were more than 15 people ahead of me, but since I have Majic Jack, after 15 mins, 40 sec both times, I got a recording that state they were having system problems, and could not answer my call. Being as stubborn as I am, I tried the 3rd time, and 14+minutes into the call, got a live person. I had a big enough compressor, I had adjusted all the pressures etc. that
their manual called for, so he was stumped. When I suggested that the solution was a larger nozzle, he said I should go back to HF and buy their abrasive. When I did the comparison of TSC abrasive @ $7.49 vs. HF @49.95, he threw up his hands, and had no solution. I guess I'll put it back in the box, go back to my old Grainger pot and get my money back. I use a lot of HF tools, and am not usually disappointed. I know they are not Snap On, so don't expect world class, but this is really frustrating,
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