If I put water in my sand blower to un clog it will it damage it

@ShooterK2
@Zeviander

 

Lol, I have no idea.

Is the sand in the air canister coming off the blower or the blower itself? If it got in the blower housing, I'm fairly certain it's screwed. That is a precisely machined set of parts and sand will have destroyed it.

 

Wd-40.
It Works for everything else,
but don't blame me if it blows up.

 

What @Zeviander said. I don't know anything about Barite but I've seen pumps destroyed by sand and cement..

Can you get somewhere to pull the pump down to clean it and inspect?

 

If you're talking about putting water in the blower (as illustrated above), that's a stunningly bad idea. Aside from the blower not designed for it, water is an incompressible fluid (as opposed to air), and you'll no doubt break something... like the case, or a shaft, or...

 

Thanks for letting us know.

 

Bad advice. Real bad.

 

If you had a working check valve, the product would have never made it upstream to the blower. But once it’s in there, there’s not a whole lot you can do. Will it turn? If not, you might try pulling the burnout plug and see if you can get enough product out the bottom to make it turn. If that doesn’t work it probably needs taken apart. But do NOT put water in it. Or anything else.

And replace that check valve man. Don’t want this happening again.