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| | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Bryan, a search on sandblasting should give you enough info to read for two days. This question comes up fairly often. If you have RUST my OPINION is sandblasting. A professional will not cost anymore in the long run than you buying the blaster & sand. Especially if this is a mainly a one time deal. I HAD a pressurized blaster... use it on one chassis and said enough. You HAVE to be able to get plenty of DRY air. (the old gravity fed siphon type will do small things.
Hers MY experience and everyone seems to be different. PLASTIC media will NOT take of anything but paint! It would not even take off a light, oxidized palm print, left on the firewall. I have been there, done that and paid the price to find out. (Last summer it was $85 per hour plus the media.
Black Diamond is very aggressive for the worst rust and its expensive costing between $8 and $9 a 50lb bag here in Spartanburg from Tractor Supply. I used one bag and the other one is under my blasting cabinet. I'll probably never use it.
I do use glass beads for "sensitive" parts but not for rust.
Sand will get it off. I buy mine from a local concrete mixing place. The bags I get have "Sterling" brand name on them. This sand is sized so it will not clog up your lines like play sand or river sand... AND it only cost $3.28 for a 50lb bag. It comes in Medium, Fine, and Extra Fine. I keep a bag or two of the Medium on hand but I mainly use the Fine.
One place overlooked by most is the place that does Monuments. The local momument place here has a guy thats been doing it for over 20 years and cost $100 per hour. Sounds like alot per hour but they have the equipment and can get a LOT done in an hour. The price includes the sand.
Dipping: some say this is the best way but the greatest fear is that some of the solution will leach out from places and ruin the paint jobs later in life! Its said if its wash/rinsed good there is no problem. I have also seen post on here that some paint companies will not guarantee the their paint on acid dipped cars. I believe someone posted the statement here from an actual paint company a while back. It is also expensive so buyer beware.
Well, what I have not covered I'm sure someone else will. It will mainly depend just how bad of situation you have on your hands. | | |
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