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| Britain Smith |
 Sep 3 2003, 11:13 AM
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Does anyone know if it is possible to rent a sandblaster? If so, where? I am in the Santa Clara, CA area and only need one for a little while. I have an air compressor to run it. Anyone have one that I can borrow?
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| Slowpoke |
Sep 3 2003, 05:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 1-June 03 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 768 |
You can sand blast your car to remove the undercoat ( I wouldn't do it) , but as stated it is not very efficent. The the more damanging result from sand blasting is you will warp the sheet metal panels. I have been really careful and I have done that a couple of times. My body man, (70 year old guy with numerous cars that made Popular Hot Rodding in the day) that fixes my mistakes, using all the tricks he has learnt in the last 50 years, really gets upset trying to get out the oil canning and the crown back into the panels. I avoid it like the plague now. I don't remove good undercoat, so I don't have a good method to do it. But, fixing heat warp panels is much harder that scraping off undercoat. I don't mind sandblasting an area I'm going to be welding on anyway. But, I wouldn't touch a good panel with a sand blaster. That's what they make dry stripping shops for. when you need it.
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Posts in this topic
Britain Smith Renting a Sandblaster Sep 3 2003, 11:13 AM
Lawrence I dunno how much blasting you have to do.. but you... Sep 3 2003, 11:14 AM Randal I do. It needs a good compressor (5 or 6 cfm at 1... Sep 3 2003, 12:13 PM Brad Roberts Your are opening up the biggest can of worms in th... Sep 3 2003, 12:17 PM Britain Smith We have a 50 gallon compressor, would that work? ... Sep 3 2003, 12:38 PM Brad Roberts Its not the size of the tank... its the pump head ... Sep 3 2003, 12:41 PM tdgray Brad is right (wow how many times is that phrase u... Sep 3 2003, 12:47 PM Brad Roberts hey.. I was WRONG in another post this morning...L... Sep 3 2003, 12:50 PM bmendel Agreed, I have the biggest compressor you can get ... Sep 3 2003, 12:59 PM Britain Smith I am going to be selling the original 912 engine. ... Sep 3 2003, 02:31 PM Mueller Britain,
If you can wait a few weeks for me to ge... Sep 3 2003, 02:51 PM Brad Roberts His problem is getting the car ANYWHERE. He doesnt... Sep 3 2003, 02:53 PM Britain Smith I am just going to suffer with the manual method o... Sep 3 2003, 02:59 PM
Randal I wonder if one of those powerful (3000 psi or hig... Sep 4 2003, 09:43 AM |
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