When Jörgen an I set up a Vapor blasting shop here in Sweden we were in for +10.000 USD before we blasted our first part.
Cabinet, he'll off a Atlas Copco compressor (second hand), IBC container for waste water, rinse set up with pump, stainless wash sink and sediment tanks and more.
So it's not cheap to set up. So 100USD/H and getting spanking clean parts back is not a bad deal. Or you can spend endless hours with out even getting close.
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