Media blasting, pros and cons ? Options

[sechszylinder]

Hello,

i'm in progress to restore a 914/6. The car is stripped to bare metall and i found some rust here
and there, but not as much as expected. Fortunately the longitudinals are as well o.k. .

All four fenders are disassembled, so i do not have to worry about them.

That's not the first 914 that i rebuild, but this time i'd like to make it very clean.

Now here's my question: Does anybody has experience with media blasting and the pros
and cons of it ?

many greetings and "luftgekühlte grüsse aus berlin"

Benno

[Mueller]

I sandblasted my engine compartment myself (with motor out of the car).....besides making a huge mess in the garage (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ....I was having to clean sand off of my motor every single time I took it out for a drive....the sand will get into cracks and seems that I didn't know existed.

A medium that is larger than sand would be a better choice, unless you methodically clean and use lots of compressed air to blow out the sand. I'd almost be tempted to put the bare chassis on a trailer and drive around for a while to "vibrate" out the hidden sand if you go that route.