Soda Blasting

[mach70]

Can you use a home style sand blast setup for soda blasting?

I assume you can but assumptions can lead to the mother of all f&%kups.

Also any clues on where to buy the Soda Material.

The local paint shop here couldn't help but said it was expensive stuff.

Can I just go to woolies and by BiCarb Soda and use that?


Cheers



Shawn

[scott66stang]

I was gonna have a go with using soda on my home unit but never got around to it , cant see any reason why not.
Stock feed places should sell it by the 20l bucket , well they used to when we were giving it to horses.

[hybrid]

I thought the soda blasting units were different. Read about it somewhere, but it was a while ago, so can't remember for sure.

[moe]

Check this article out:

http://www.aircooledtech.com/tools-on-t ... a_blaster/

[Digger]

I set up a home made blasting unit, with a pot pressure setup, bought a Peerlees 15 amp air compressor ($1200), great for small parts, garnet and plastic beads as the blasting medium. Have done heaps of small parts.

For the whole car would go professional. Cost me $1500 for the shell to get blasted with a combinaation of soda and garnet. In hindsight I would do a chemical dip as soda tends to leave a residue on the panels and the claims of protection from flash rust are crap.

Cheers

Mike