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| Can anyone help me with pros and cons of soda blasting my project car? thanks
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| Duh, I just found an article on soda blasting in the July 2005 issue.
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| I recently soda blasted 8 layers of paint and primer off of my '76 'Vette. I live near Houston and located a company named Soda Blasters LLC. They won't blast a fiberglass car but they will let you use their equipment for a fee. They will do metal cars. I arrived there at about 8:00am and was finished about 1:00pm. I blasted the whole car, door jams, and an extra hood in 5 hours! This was much faster thansanding or scraping and safer than chem-stripping. With fiberglass the pressure was set at about 50#. It is still imperative not to linger in one spot as it can blow a hole in it. Steel cars don't have this problem. On fiberglass you sweep quickly until you just begin to remove the last coat of paint or primer. Baking soda is water soluable so when I got the car home I simply used a water hose to wash off every thing. Other blasting media has to be blown, vac'ed, or swept to remove and it will still be in nooks and crannies. The soda will not harm glass or chrome. I did remove the chrome trim but not the glass. The doors had a lot of soda in them but it all washed out with no problem. The interior was removed but the car could still move under it's own power. There was soda all over the engine and compartment even though I had covered it with plastic. It washed off easily.
You don't know the limit 'til you've past it.
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| 4 years ago I had a 63 Corvair Spyder Soda blasted. It did a wonderful job of stripping the car, and I was very satisfied at the time. Since I have found a slight down side to the process. The soda is not particular to where it goes on the vehicle. It gets into all the little cracks, seams and areas between the spot weld joints. What this all means, for example, is that every time I open the engine compartment cover or the luggage cover, a little more soda falls out onto the paint and I have to clean it again, and again. It is not a problem, just a constant nusicance. And YES this is still happening 4 years later, and many car shows and rallys.
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| There was a great article last month or two ago about soda blasting. I loved it, but it did raise a few questions for me. 1. I have a portable sand blaster like in the article, and I noticed that Eastwood sells a conversion kit to change your sand blaster into a soda blaster, Why do you need to buy all the stuff,new hoses, vaule ect.. Why not just clean out all the old sand, and pour in the soda?
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