<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>I really liked using blasting soda when i did Iris. It made cleanup a lot easier as far as removing it from the myraid of crevices. Nothing will piss you off more than when you are painting it and some previously unblown sand eeks its way out of a crevice and flys up into that wet paint. </div><div><br></div><div>Leo </div><div><br>On Jul 6, 2017, at 5:30 AM, Tim Collins via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Mike, <div>My experience was the same as Billy's. Only, instead of going to a lumber yard for sand, I got mine at a brick/block kind of place. I believe the bag said FLINT on it. Not the city in Michigan, but the mineral type in the bag. In my AH Sprite picture album here: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/12702006@N07/sets/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/12702006@N07/sets/</a> I have some pics of my blasting setup. I used a pressure pot and it all worked together well. The "curtains" allowed me to contain the sand. I'm in a residential neighborhood so that was important.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Mike Rambour via Spridgets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi,<br>
Ok, next question, anyone know of a place to get a Austin Mini Cooper body stripped down to bare metal ? In S. CALIF. ???<br>
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I had a sandblaster guy lined up in town to sandblast the mini body, he was going to sandblast the majority of the under body and inside, then soda blast the actual outside of the body due to possible warping with sand. But he has gone non-responsive on me and my son-in-law wants the car done a few weeks ago. We had a big fight, he did cut the front end off, so its just a simple small body shell now, easy to transport.<br>
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We have the outside of the body 80% or more down to bare metal and getting all the edges, seams, etc. are a pain to get cleaned up, then inside there is not a flat surface to sand/grind/paint_remover/etc. so its time to send it out to blast. Or dipped but I think dipped will be too expensive for him, for the sake of family I might help him with the cost of dipping, I want him and the car out of my life. He wants this once perfect rust free car down to bare metal.<br>
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So, anyone know a place in S. Calif. ? we are located in Santa Barbara and I can’t seem to find anyone here in town.<br>
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Mike<br>
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