Post by buster on Jul 14, 2019 16:40:10 GMT
I'd read a bit about soda blasting and seen it done on various programmes on tv and thought it looked the ideal thing for cleaning/stripping air cooled engines. I already upgraded my compressor to a 50litre 3hp model (it can only just keep up with any type of blasting, bigger and more powerful would be better) so bought a cheap gun off ebay and a couple of bags of soda (10kg).
this is about as far as my set up would reasonably go, thats without spending forever and a day trying to blast every bit of paint off
on the positive side its taken all the crud and muck off and the paint thats left has a dull finish (like paint thats been flatted down with wet and dry for a respray), so I deemed that to be ok for repainting.
on the down side, if I was trying to get the engine back to bare alloy, well I think you'd need a proper commercial set up to do it and as soda, unlike most blast media, is a one hit wonder I'd guess it costs quite a bit.
overall I'm happy enough with the results I got for my own purposes, the neighbours however slightly less so...
this is about as far as my set up would reasonably go, thats without spending forever and a day trying to blast every bit of paint off
on the positive side its taken all the crud and muck off and the paint thats left has a dull finish (like paint thats been flatted down with wet and dry for a respray), so I deemed that to be ok for repainting.
on the down side, if I was trying to get the engine back to bare alloy, well I think you'd need a proper commercial set up to do it and as soda, unlike most blast media, is a one hit wonder I'd guess it costs quite a bit.
overall I'm happy enough with the results I got for my own purposes, the neighbours however slightly less so...
