I have had good and bad experiences with sandblasting. As others said, I would never sandblast an assembled tractor. I only sandblast parts and not all parts as I never sandblast engine or hydraulic parts. I have my engines hot dipped and I use a wire wheel for finishing/cleaning hydraulic parts. Once I sandblasted the main transmission housing (didn't completely disassemble the back of the tractor) after I had all the rest of the tractor rebuilt. I thought I had all the holes covered, but since there is not a gasket between the brake housings and the transmission housing, sand got in the brakes. I had to take them back apart and clean. Others also have said never sandblast sheetmetal. I have had good success if you are careful. You have to keep the blast nozzle at a distance and use the finest grit sand you can purchase. I remember the biggest disaster I had sandblasting sheetmetal was just after I bought my sandblaster. My son brought over the covers for his baseboard heating units that had many layers of paint on them. By the time we had all the paint and rust off they were virtually unusable as they were warped so bad. Roger
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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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