looking for economical source for soda or sand blasting my '73 rear hub. I live in Arizona, but would ship if the price is right. Anyone have any contacts? thanks.
That's pretty cool how it turns out. I've spent literally days and days rubbing and rubbing trying to clean a part. I've got a complete engine if like to clean, someone attempted spray paint on it at one time. What would be a good way to do it? Remove the paint and just clean it up a littleI bead blast my hubs. The glass beads texture up the polished surfaces a bit more than soda but not as much as sand, but they're aggressive enough to clean very well. Here's some before and after shots of a pretty crusty front hub I did recently .....
I leave the inner area between the spoke flanges as is after blasting because it's pretty rough to begin with and would take tons of work to smooth and polish. And then, after the spokes are in, you couldn't get at it to re-polish it anyway. The slight texture the glass beads put on the outer polished surfaces polishes off pretty easily. I hit it first with some very fine (gray) Roloc discs, then buff with the course black emery compound.
I used sand at one time, river sand, as it gave a good finish, but no more. Sand is silica based and no matter how well you suit up you will breath in some of that silica, the result is silicosis - no cure, and the result is death.I'm really cheap, I just use (sifted) beach sand in mine, lol.
How is soda Blasting done
Bought a small compressor not so big 25 l tank 160 l/min 8 bar.
Maybe to small.
As I understand it there is a special gun .. for it .
Something like that $ 25
https://www.biltema.se/en-se/tools/compressed-air/sandblasting/spot-blaster-2000028446
Does one need a tight glass box or something to do it In .Is it creating a lot of dust or so.
Messing up the garage or place where it is done.
Inside a cardboard box or so ? perhaps outside on the lawn ?? Or is that not possible
It needs to be contained in a closed container just like any other blasting or it will make a huge mess.
I have a field in the back of our property and blast there out in the open. Big mess but it’s a sand field so it just blends in.
Blasting material (baking soda) will kill all the small vegetation it comes in contact with, that includes your grass.
If you have a big enough driveway you could do it there but there will be a good amount of clean up after.
The blaster you show is way too small to do anything with. Probably have to fill it 5 times just to do some carb bodies.
You need something like this. Holds 40lbs of media.
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