Sponge jet media and blast equipment??? - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

BLASTPRO · 10-25-2009, 08:28 PM

Ive been checking the net for different blast medias out there and came across a product called Sponge Jet, im sure a few of the veterans out there know what im talking about. Not sure of the cost but I am very impressed with the low or no dust results of the media and the ability to clean fast and to spec. Thoughts anyone, im going to get more info from the company tomorrow.

rlaird · 10-25-2009, 08:39 PM

It has its applications,
But if I had to spend the money I'd buy a good blast rig, I had a fellow contractor in the fire restoration business who bought the rig and a classifier,And was offering to sale it to me.
It was close to 30k no compressor included, I can do everything it can do with my blaster and I have more production.I can also get a lot more bang for my buck.

The advantage is low dust and the media is not real heavy of sponge rubber with abrasive glued to it. I tried it out on brick job removing soot, it did ok.the low dust and clean up were great, but the media was more expensive and did not clean as fast as soda.But you can sweepit up and re-use it.

Not trying to dog the equipment, I just like mine better having tried one

Dyer · 10-26-2009, 06:00 AM

My old employer tried to use the Sponge Blast. (We used to call it Sponge Bobin’)
The problems outweighed the effectiveness of the product.
We would Blast for 1 hour and clean for 5. Recycling it as we went.
They had a machine to dump the media into, shaking it out into 3 sizes. Lots of labor involved.
Although we had lots of problems over several months, the Blasting results on the product was good.
As with any thing it had its ups and downs.
The company abandoned it after a few months.