Sand Blasting Car -- what would you do?
Well I said the heck with paying someone to sandblast mine so I went to work building me a rotisserie and a sandblaster with a nice deadman valve and a good ceramic nozzle and a blaster that would hold 250 lbs. of sand (built it from an old propane cylinder).Took the thing apart mounted it on the rotisserie pushed it outside and started blasting with fine sand.It was very time consuming,but well worth it.It took me about 5 hrs. to do the shell of the body.Then I done the doors,fenders hood & deck lid.I knew these were flat surface panels and would warp if you blasted them head on so I angled my blaster nozzle and hit them sideways (no warpage at all) and approached them approx. 16" away everything came out perfect.Built the blaster and rotisserie at 1/2 the cost of what they wanted to blast the car.....:cheers:
Very thrilled with my outcome......If I had to do it again I would do it all over...By the way when you spin the car on the rotisserie you would be surprised how much sand comes out on the floor.Then it's up to the ol blow nozzle and you.......Just thought I would give some input on my experience.
Good Luck !!!!
Well I said the heck with paying someone to sandblast mine so I went to work building me a rotisserie and a sandblaster with a nice deadman valve and a good ceramic nozzle and a blaster that would hold 250 lbs. of sand (built it from an old propane cylinder).Took the thing apart mounted it on the rotisserie pushed it outside and started blasting with fine sand.It was very time consuming,but well worth it.It took me about 5 hrs. to do the shell of the body.Then I done the doors,fenders hood & deck lid.I knew these were flat surface panels and would warp if you blasted them head on so I angled my blaster nozzle and hit them sideways (no warpage at all) and approached them approx. 16" away everything came out perfect.Built the blaster and rotisserie at 1/2 the cost of what they wanted to blast the car.....:cheers:
Very thrilled with my outcome......If I had to do it again I would do it all over...By the way when you spin the car on the rotisserie you would be surprised how much sand comes out on the floor.Then it's up to the ol blow nozzle and you.......Just thought I would give some input on my experience.
Good Luck !!!!