47-59 Media blasting questions

[58CameoAZ]

I seen in an old Truckin Magazine years ago an article on sand blasting and cleaning items on the authors truck, in the article the guy mentioned a cheap HF Pneumatic Gasket scraper, & a vibrating box like thing ( have no clue what it would be used for?)Trying to Keep this post Clean!!!! anyway, he used the Gasket scraper to scrape all the old Tar
from inside the wheel wells and this vibrating box thing and would attach it to the inside and around areas of his cab and leave it vibrating to shake all the loose sand from the nooks and crannies
I bought one of the HF Gasket Scraper and have to say was the Best! 9 Bucks i had spent!!
Umm, dont have the vibrating Box thing tho Lol....but did think it was kind of a Genius Idea!

Allen

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by jwhotrod

i had a dustless blasting company come and blast my cab, what a mess. i have taken (2) 5 gallon buckets of glass muck out of my cab after they left. i had automotive restoration in Brookfield. WI dip and e coat the doors. fenders, frame and some misc parts they came back beautiful. i didnt do the cab since it was too big to fit the e coat line (52" height restriction) the frame and door especially all coated inside and out wit epoxy e-coat. i wouldnt dustless blast again for all the tea in china.

i did not know that e-coating old steel was an option. got pics and prices?
have a link? i googled that name and got nutin'

[jwhotrod]

first of all here is the link to the stripper/ecoater http://www.metal-cleaning-rsi.com/

the total for all the doors, fenders, misc parts and frame was $2600
here are the photos

[_Ogre]

nice to know the insides of your doors and under brackets, inside fender braces are covered in epoxy.
i see your doors had the factory 40 mirrors option...
i swear mine had 100 mirror holes in them after they came back from the blaster.
west coast trucker mirrors were very popular in the 70s & 80s

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

and then there's martinsr's thoughts

Yep, ignore my thoughts. Getting a car back from the sandblaster like I have seen COMPLETELY DISTROYED, just ignore my thoughts.

For those who rather have no issues and enjoy your build:

DO NOT SAND BLAST UNLESS YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE DOING IT REALLY KNOW HOW TO SAND BLAST SHEET METAL!



Brian

[rnrdthefox]

Thought I would close out this post since I said I would report back. I was happy with the doors and trim that I got back from the blaster. I think they dipped the trim as it doesn't have the surface finish as the doors. I recently dropped off a rear fender and few other parts. Working to get the cab to them, but am running out of nice weather to get it in epoxy outside so it might have to wait until the spring. Here are a few pics. I have more pics posted in my build thread.

I like one of the previous post about using an E-coat dipping. Would really liked to have that as an option on the doors....

[rnrdthefox]

One more with a door in Epoxy

[_Ogre]

looks good fox

[mick53]

The guy I build dry ice manufacturing plants for has an industrial wet blaster on a trailer rig. He was going to set up a mobile service for hotrods in Michigan and I guess just never got around to it. He said I could use it anytime I wanted so maybe I'll give it a try. Thanks for all the info guys. I think this is the best AD forum. Everyone here is polite and excepting of others ideas. Maybe the rest of the country can catch on. Thank you for your time.