[TR] Sandblasting wire wheels

alan salvatore alansalvy at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 14:50:08 MST 2016


Use epoxy primer.
On Feb 21, 2016 3:55 PM, <terryrs at comcast.net> wrote:

> Two or three years ago, I picked up a sandblaster from Harbor Freight.
> Last spring, I found some glass bead, coarse and medium, on sale because
> the bags had been opened.
>
> Filled the tank with coarse, cranked up the air pressure, and started
> blasting.  Nothing happened.
>
> Reminded me of a girl I dated rather too hopefully in high school.  Same
> as here, issue turned out to be me.
>
> Oh well.
>
> Finally figured out after bead refused to come out the hose, that the bead
> was damp and clogging in the hose.  Comes from buying open bags, I suspect,
> then leaving them most of a year in the garage.
>
> Went to Tractor Supply Co., bought bags of dry black beauty, and LO!
> Caked up paint evaporated at a touch of the nozzle.  Amazing and fast.
> What had seemed mysterious and complicated yesterday, piece of cake today.
>
> Wonder how long I can remember how I did it....
>
> Will paint next weekend when I'm not too tired and likely sloppy.
>
> Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
> New Hampshire
>
>
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