Soda blasting

[jackq]

While in Roswell this week I got crawling around the 47 Studebaker truck I bought and starting thinking about the best way to get it out of the cluster of cars its surrounded by and worked out a plan. Next...tires. 775 by 17 inch 8 ply bias....Hmmmm. Okay..online at $163 each, not bad. Later I noticed a local paper had been tossed up against the gate?? It was apparently a free copy saying subscribe now and get it half price for the first three months. Ok..opened it and there was an ad for a local company doing clean-ups and media blasting. Called them and told them I was a geezer and was tired of sanding. He has a total mobile unit and wiil come to the yard when I'm ready and do it right there. So the plan is I'll dismantle it right there and for about $600 it"ll be ready for resto. They also said to drag the 65 Mustang over and they'll do that as well.
ll

 

[equiprx]

You do know soda blasting will not remove rust?

 

[PAUL161]

Soda blasting has it's good and bad points! Bad point is, after the object that has been done, it should be washed with a special cleaning solution to remove all traces of the soda media/chemicals, but a type that doesn't cause the metal to flash. If any traces are left, it'll push the paint. I personally won't use it on a car body, but that's just me. I won't sand blast either as sand blasting causes a high heat build up on thin metal if your not extremely careful, thus causing warping. I only sand blast chassis. I strip my car bodies by either having them dipped or using an aircraft grade stripper. Naturally the self stripping is a lot of work, but you never damage the metal underneath. JMHO. PJ

 

[TomMull]

Soda blasting has it's good and bad points! Bad point is, after the object that has been done, it should be washed with a special cleaning solution to remove all traces of the soda media/chemicals, but a type that doesn't cause the metal to flash. If any traces are left, it'll push the paint. I personally won't use it on a car body, but that's just me. I won't sand blast either as sand blasting causes a high heat build up on thin metal if your not extremely careful, thus causing warping. I only sand blast chassis. I strip my car bodies by either having them dipped or using an aircraft grade stripper. Naturally the self stripping is a lot of work, but you never damage the metal underneath. JMHO. PJ

Any thoughts on plastic media? Had a friend who used glass and (I think) acrylic meadia on airplanes, apparently with no damage to the aluminum skin.
Tom