If you're not careful you can seriously warp the sheet metal with a sand blaster.
Even if you're careful, sand will get into every seal and gasket on the tractor, so IMHO sand blasting is only for when you completely tear the tractor down.
You're not going to sand blast an entire tractor with a typical shop compressor and one of those cheap blaster kits from Harbor Freight. You'll die of old age, because you can only blast for a few seconds before you have to stop and let the compressor catch up.
I am addicted to those twisted wire cup brushes for a 4-1/2" angle grinder for this kind of stuff. These easily take rust and loose paint off, and feather out the leftover paint. I've done a complete tractor, a plow, and a loader so far. It takes far less time than you think.
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Today's Featured Article - The Cletrac General GG and the BF Avery A - A Bit of History - by Mike Ballash. This article is a summary of what I have gathered up from various sources on the Gletrac General GG and the B. F. Avery model A tractors. I am quite sure that most of it is accurate. The General GG was made by the Cleveland Tractor Company (Cletrac) of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally the company was called the Cleveland Motor Plow Company which began in 1912, then the Cleveland Tractor Company (1917) and finally Cletrac.
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