sand blasting
I got a quote for $750 to do an 85 d150 that's in pieces... Bed cab doors fenders hood everything if I truck it up about 45 minutes away. Another $150 if he comes to me. I wasn't gonna do the frame I don't know how much more that would be, I was gonna just hit that with a needle scaler where it needs it but might change my mind by spring. I was told to call back in the spring as their process also uses water with the blasting material and they have everything drained down right now for the winter.
I have since discovered another dustless blasting place that's only 5 miles away, at a place where I used to know someone that worked at, though I don't think the guy I knew is still there it seems everyone else i talk to knows someone there and tells me "mention their name, they'll take care of you". I knew this place did welding and major fabrication I didn't know they did dustless blasting as well. I think it's something new they got into. So even if they're $900 it'll not be any more than having the other place come down and do my truck. Definitely save me a ton of time as they assure me it'll all be bare metal in a day at most... Compared thow long I'd have to be at it with my compressor and a DA .. it'll be done a lot faster.