How to Change Abrasive in a Comco Blaster
Need to blast with a new media? Learn how to clean & prepare your blaster for an abrasive change. Includes a video walk-through and step-by-step guide.
5 Ways to Break Your Blaster
Make any 1 of these 5 common operator mistakes, and you may break your blaster–meaning unplanned downtime for maintenance or a costly factory repair. Read this post and learn how to avoid a blaster disaster.
Prevent Abrasive Contamination
Abrasive contamination is easily preventable. Learn how to maintain air pressure inside your blaster and make sure abrasive moves in one direction.
Have You Changed the Tank Orifice?
An easily-forgotten component, the tank orifice has a critical impact on the efficiency and consistency of your micro-abrasive blaster. Learn why and how to change the tank orifice in your Comco blaster.
Understanding Modulator Wear and Repair
The modulator is the heart of your system; the engine running the machine; the thing that turns your blaster from a simple dirt-chucker to a sophisticated surface-refinement tool. Learn more about this essential component to any Comco blaster, how to spot modulator wear, and how to replace it.
Fight the Urge to Pedal Pump
Pedal pumping, or pumping the footswitch, on an AccuFlo or MicroBlaster damages key blaster components. Pedal pumping also wastes abrasive and leads to results that are hard to repeat. Learn why pedal pumping starts and how to stop.