[Fot] [Shop-talk] Blast Media

[Bill Babcock]

You can use soda or plastic as the blast media, soda would probably be  
best, but I wouldn't expect it to stay pristine long.
On Jan 24, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Mark Eginton wrote:

> Interesting thread as I have been toying with the idea of taking an  
> extra set
> of carbs and bead blasting everything including the manifold for  
> that clean
> beadblasted look as an assembly. Think there is anything in the  
> alloy of the
> carb peices that the loss of the patina might accelerate coorosion?  
> My biggest
> fear is the beads in my engine which is why I probably won't do it...
>
> In the past I have had very good luck with Kas' method. I was  
> however always
> surprised how quickly it all went back to the basic SU look, kinda  
> like
> learning to like green bronze on my sailboat. Admittedly, my car  
> suffers from
> months - sometimes years of back-burner syndrome where another toy  
> gets my
> primping time and the TR just gets driven...
>
> Cheers,
>
> M
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