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: Sandblasting is great


bubba68ss
Sep 17th, 05, 4:12 AM
Its amazing what i did with my 69 SS wheels after having them blasted (my first time experience). They looked terrible with chipping paint and cobwebs. I could NOT get all the paint off with all the little hard to get spots. Anyways, i met a new friend and Ill be a good future customer. Only charged me $20 to blast the four rims. He said he'll do a car for $300. Is that a fair deal?

Freddy Mercado
Sep 17th, 05, 12:13 PM
Yeah, that is fair. BUT......... You have to make sure he knows what he is doing. Sandblasting a car can cause some serious damage. Heat on sheet metal equals warpage!!!!!!

pdq67
Sep 17th, 05, 6:56 PM
You can use Baking Soda, ground Walnut Hulls, ground Corn Cobs, bits of hard plastic and even pelleted Dry Ice!!

As well as white silica and beach sand and "Black-Beauty" blasting media.

Once at a BIG car show, I held an aluminum Pepsi can that the guy selling the equipment had sand blasted half the paint off of w/o hurting the can at all!!

The guy said he could sand blast the paint off a 'Vette's hood AND leave the primer!!

Whatever you use, please suit up AND use GOOD air supply SAFETY stuff to protect both your skin AND your lungs!!

I learned this from "guniting" refractory castables and plastics when I installed the stuff for the old APGreen Refractories Company. Shoot that stuff in a heartbeat!!

AND with a bit of easy changes, an N-0 Allentown gunite machine will make a dandy sand blaster!!

pdq67