cleaning numerous parts with soda blaster

[56hotrodred]

I am cleaning up as many parts as I can with my new Eastwood Soda Blaster. After completing the grille I noticed some staple-like things on the back of the grille that must be to attach some sort of felt padding - not too sure what else to call it.

I quickly looked in the LMC catalogue to see if they have a replacement part name/number for the thin felt strip that would attach and found none. It was quick look though.

These staple-like attachments are brazed on the back/inside of the grille all around it and I was wondering if I should leave them on and find the padding or if you guys remove them!

By the way the Soda Blaster works great and I expect it is going to save me lots of money in the long run by blasting everything I can before it goes to the body shop.

56hotrodred

[solidaxel]

How does the soda do on rust and primer?

[56hotrodred]

It will remove some surface rust but does very little for anything that is eating into the metal. The unit I have can also be switched to sand to get at the rust. I may have to do some sand blasting on parts of the cab once I remove all the paint and primer and see what I have. The cab is in very good shape and should not need to much sand blasting.

It will remove primer but it takes a little more effort as primer seems to bond better to metal as i guess it is suppose to. In some cases I am removing several layers of paint including some of the original that seems pretty tough.

Eastwood web site has some videos of the small unit that I bought at work.

56hotrodred

[56hotrodred]

Nobody knows anything about those little clips???

I looked at them again and many are really bent up of missing and they are brazed on.

Should I remove them?

i am also just about done blasting the outside of the cab.

56hotrodred

[orgalmeister]

I've seen the staples your referring to. I just removed mine. Seemed like too much trouble to find out what they did.