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Shaping Bag Filler
Not sure if this is the best place for this question, or the "Basic Tools" forum, but since my question is more related to safety than function, here I am.
I want to know what to fill my shaping bags with. Sand makes silica dust. Lead shot presumably makes lead dust. Mild steel rusts. Stainless steel is really expensive. Help!
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-Sandro "Ogre" Rettinger, Albuquerque, NM |
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I've used "chilled steel shot" for years. You can get it at any gun store. It hasn't rusted yet.
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Dan Rosenau... |
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What size of shot do you use?
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-Sandro "Ogre" Rettinger, Albuquerque, NM |
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I've used plain old sand for years. When it starts puffing dust at the bag opening, I dump it in the yard and spend another 3 bucks for more sand.
Everything in my shop is hazardous to my health....
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Ditto the sand. I use "play sand".
If I'm wrong and it turns out to be really hazardous, billions of folks the world around are in gonna be in trouble along with me: anybody who's ever spent time playing in a sandbox or on a beach.... Or plain living where the wind blows sand, like Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, S. California, etc, etc. Personally however, I would categorically avoid silica sand for a beater's bag, which is the bright white sand sold for pool filters, investment casting, and ash tray filler. The bags even come with a warning about the dust. When I filled my pool filter, I always wore a mask, it's dusty stuff when dry. And, like the label says, it's primarily silica, the stuff of silicosis. Play sand may have some silica in it, but I gotta think it has granite, limestone, basalt, etc, as well and is not pure silica.
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Mark from Illinois Last edited by weldtoride; 09-09-2013 at 06:56 PM. |
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I've been using #8 lead shot in bags made of Kevlar bus seat material... I don't know if it "puffs" lead dust, but I've never seen any when using the bag, and never seen any residue where the bag gets used.... I guess if the lead or silica dust doesn't get you, it will be the hammer flattening your thumbnail...
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Robert Instagram @ mccartney_paint_and_custom McCartney Paint and Custom YouTube channel |
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Mix some mineral oil. Also known as baby oil in with your sand bag sand. No more dust. And the bag is tighter.
Try it. Mike |
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