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soda blasting yes or no?

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Neil Vonnahme

02-03-2006 21:03:10




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hey everyone i posted this message in a differant forum but thought maybe you good folks in here would have more advice. was just wondering if anyone had used or seen used this soda blasting and if it is worth doing for 150$ an hour vs sand blasting myself. heard of alot of benefits to doing it but dont know if it is. any thoughts?




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huntingreen

02-15-2006 19:55:47




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 Re: soda blasting yes or no? in reply to Neil Vonnahme, 02-03-2006 21:03:10  
I have used bakeing sods. It works good around crome and glass. It will eat the paint off a car and not hurt the chrome. It is a very dusty operation. Dont use sand. Get you some of the coal slag product to use. The kind I use is called Black Beauty.



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B-maniac

02-05-2006 19:22:52




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 Re: soda blasting yes or no? in reply to Neil Vonnahme, 02-03-2006 21:03:10  
If you take it to a high pressure blaster,make sure he has sheet metal blasting experience,(ie turn down the pressure and hold it back) or you will have one wavey mess once you put shiny paint on it. Also make sure they use sharp silica sand and not pit sand or beach sand. It cleans quicker and with less heat build up. Anything works well on cast parts.



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J2

02-05-2006 15:19:33




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 Re: soda blasting yes or no? in reply to Neil Vonnahme, 02-03-2006 21:03:10  
Not aggessive enough to get rust... otherwise, better... not a danger to moving parts (for the same reason).... If takes a pressure pot (you need to get it going fast and efficient, which a siphon can't do as well) and then a special setup is advised if you don't want to use hundreds of dollars of soda...



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CNKS

02-04-2006 18:23:58




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 Re: soda blasting yes or no? in reply to Neil Vonnahme, 02-03-2006 21:03:10  
I haven't used soda blasting, I agree that it may not remove rust. As to a comparison to doing it yourself, I have had wheels, rims, etc sandblasted before I bought my own. You really won't save any money doing it yourself if you have the typical small sandblaster like I do which only has about 25 CFM. A professional blaster with a 250+ cfm blaster will cost less or about the same as you spend, because you will need much more sand, soda, whatever to do the same job. The larger ones are more efficient. In other words his labor cost is about the same as your media cost. I do it myself simply because it is more convenient for me. But, I don't do whole tractors.

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REDJD

02-04-2006 17:36:48




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 Re: soda blasting yes or no? in reply to Neil Vonnahme, 02-03-2006 21:03:10  
A friend brought me his tractor to paint.He had taken it to a body shop and had it soda blasted it took the paint off alright but left a lot of rust for me to deal with. The only advantage I can see in soda blasting is, its safe for the engine.



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