More questions. New toy...sandblaster

Interesting.

I am going to be blasint whole front end and engine well, so I am sure I'll make a huge ass mess. Might look into that for cleaning.

 

I will be pressure washing my c4 this weekend. I'll try it and let you know!!!

 

yeah and take plenty of pictures of the stuff that you clean out of your nose too

 

You really want those pics? lol.

Luckily I took the advice of some here during my painting spell and bought a very nice respirator. So no sand up my nose. Should have seen the leftover paint in my boogies though. LOL.

 

whats the diff between bead blasting and sand blasting and witch 1 is better?

 

Bead usually refers to glass beads. They are less aggressive, which create less heat.

 

a few times but we wont tell my wife.

 

For anyone interested, here is some decent information.

http://www.nortonsandblasting.com/

I've been looking into this myself. It's a start.

 

Not sure about this

I was going to try this the other weekend on my c4 case. As I was inspecting the feed tube it appeared to me that the cleaning agent is introduced prior to the pump.

That seems wrong to me, but that is what it looks like. I did not have a warm fuzzy about running baking soda through the pump, so I did not conduct the exp.

 

I wasn't too sure how the cleaning agent was introduced, but I don't blame you for not wanting to run baking soda through your pump. Maybe on a rented washer...

 

Right on

That's why I don't buy rental equipment. You know what they call rental cars?

ATV's:bananaman

 

After doing a little more research... The product is called ARMEX (made by Arm & Hammer) and you need a unit called a WADU (Water something dispension unit or something like that) that is used to inject the ARMEX into the high pressure steam. I googled WADU and ARMEX together and got all kinds of useful information.

The ARMEX can also be used in a regular type sand blaster and cleans up with water. It's more expensive and can't be reused, but it might be worth it for the cleanup and how gentle it is on the sheet metal. Also, there's no need to tape off every bolt hole since the ARMEX just rinses out. Might save on prep time.