Standard TumbleBlast™ Automatic Tumble Basket for Bead-Blasting

The Standard fits most freestanding and many tabletop sandblasting and bead-blasting cabinets. It needs about 14" W × 13" D × 14" H of interior space and has to fit through your cabinet's side door. Some small benchtop cabinets with only about 12" of interior height are too short. Check your exact cabinet with the free 3D Compatibility Tool on this page. It covers about 476 cabinet models from 36 brands, including Harbor Freight, Skat Blast, Eastwood, Empire, Trinco and Cyclone.

The Standard is built for automated bead blasting with glass bead and other non-abrasive media. It can run sand or aluminum oxide, but its basket is galvanized steel mesh, so with abrasive media the basket becomes a consumable wear part and isn't covered by warranty. If you blast with abrasive media or run all day, choose the Giant TumbleBlast™, which has an all-stainless basket and a larger motor. For steel shot, soda, plastic or other specialty media, contact us before you order.

No. Set the tumble blaster inside, run the control cable out through the door or an accessory port so the door gasket closes over it, and stick the magnetic controller to the outside of the cabinet. Setup takes minutes. If you'd prefer a permanent install, the cable has a quick disconnect, so you can route it through a drilled hole with a grommet and still lift the unit out whenever you want to blast by hand.

It runs on the included 24V power supply, which plugs into a standard wall outlet. The tumbler itself uses no compressed air; your blast cabinet still needs its usual compressor. If you're outside the US, contact us before ordering so we can confirm the right power supply for your country.

Load up to 10 lb of parts, filling no more than about 20% of the 9" basket, so parts tumble freely and finish evenly. Most batches take 15 to 30 minutes, depending on how much you load, your media and the finish you need. A light clean-up is at the short end; cutting into the surface takes longer.

Yes, that's what it's built for. Aim your blast gun down into the basket with a gun holder, such as our Noga-style magnetic mount, which is included with the Unit + Blaster-Holder option. Then keep the blaster firing by clamping the foot pedal or adding a timed solenoid valve (not included; we can recommend one for your cabinet). Load your parts, start the cycle and walk away.

Small parts stay put: the basket tilts slightly up, and the blast stream pushes parts deeper in. We run SLS prints under half an inch across without losing them. For very small, thin or delicate parts, add the optional liner, which keeps edges from slipping through or snagging in the mesh and stops parts dinging on the basket. To prevent part-on-part dings, don't overfill, use a slower speed and stop the rotation before you stop blasting.

Yes. TumbleBlast™ units run in hundreds of wet-blast and vapor-honing cabinets and thousands of dry cabinets. The semi-sealed stepper motor sits inside a full enclosure, behind multiple metal plates on the back of the unit, which makes water getting in very unlikely. We've never had a unit fail from wet-blast or vapor-honing use.

Yes. We invented the TumbleBlast™ for exactly that. We make thousands of SLS-printed gripper fingers for our CNC spindle grippers and run them through our own units to blast off leftover powder and give every part a uniform finish. If you're sandblasting 3D prints by hand today, it lets you automate SLS post-processing: load a batch, start it and walk away.

Because a blast cabinet destroys ordinary hardware. The TumbleBlast™ uses a geared stepper motor with digital speed control, semi-sealed and shielded behind metal plates, and it's six generations into its design. It's proven in thousands of dry cabinets and hundreds of wet ones, and it replaces hours of hand blasting. Building and debugging your own tumble blaster that survives inside a cabinet usually costs more in shop time.

The TumbleBlast™ has a 30-day limited warranty against manufacturer defects, starting on the order date. If something's wrong, email sales@gimbelautomation.com and we'll issue an RMA, then repair, replace or refund the unit. Standard baskets used with sand or other abrasive media are treated as consumables. Returns of stocked products may be accepted within 30 days of the order date with prior approval; contact us for an RMA number before sending anything back. Full details are in our Terms & Conditions.

In-stock units usually ship from California within a few business days, and orders over $200 qualify for free US shipping. We also ship internationally; international buyers pay any customs duties, import taxes and brokerage fees. Shipping insurance is available at checkout, and we recommend adding it.