> I worked with soda blasting for a while. Unless u have alot of pressure
and
> i mean a lot it will not take off hard paint. It will take off soft
paint;
> it is nice in that it doesnot require a lot of taping because it doesn't
> harm rubber or glass.
> I demo'd it on a few cars, it all depended on the condition of the paint.
> Some cars it could just barely dent the paint and on one truck the paint
> flowed off like water and left the primer in tack.
> That was in the early 90's when the manufactures were having alot of
peeling
> paint problems.
> There aren't many places that use bicarb as a media. plastic media is more
> cost effective for car applications.
>
> Al Salvatore
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Brazinski" <wayne@brazinski.com>
> To: "T. S. White" <tswrace@pacbell.net>; "Triumphs List"
> <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Plastic blast?
>
>
> > Tom - also look into soda (bicarb) blasting? I'm no expert but maybe
> > someone out there is?
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "T. S. White" <tswrace@pacbell.net>
> > To: "Triumphs List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:19 PM
> > Subject: Plastic blast?
> >
> >
> > > Thanks to the sage advice of this list I have srapped the idea to sand
> > > blast the firewall and wheel aprons on my TR3.
> > >
> > > My new idea is to blast them with plastic beads. This is non or less
> > > corrosive I think.
> > >
> > > Can anyone contribute salient comments on the advicability of this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tom
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