soda blasting and 66 restortation

[Joe T.]

about 6 monts or more ago i asked about soda blasting versus chemical stripping to restore the body and paint on my 66 roadster. here are my thoughts, the soda blasting took too much fiberglass off of the rear panels, doors and hood, the fiberglass was in pretty bad shape to begin with but the soda blasting made replacing the rear panels a must and made it necessary to do a great deal of reinforcing the door panels. the interior of my car was quite acceptable to me prior to the soda blasting, after the soda blasting the interior of the car looked like someone had set off a bomb of flour, this all cleaned up ok except that the clock, radio, and gauge glass is now dirty on the inside due to the baking soda getting in there, also, every time i turn on the defroster or heater i get a blast of powder despite having all the ducts blown out. so, my thought is that if you have a car that needs a new interior soda blasting might not cause you too many hassles, if you have a nice interior i wouldn't recomend it. also i would be very careful about the soda blaster, especially if you don't want to get into major fiberglass work. allis not lost however as after a huge amount of money and time and frustration i now have one extremely nice 66 laguna blue 327/300hp roadster, i've created an heirloom, i'll have to keep it in my family till i die, either that or loose myshirt(smile)

[Chris S.]

Re: soda blasting and 66 restortation

can you email me - what blaster did you use
I was planning to use a baking soda blaster here in my area
They are pretty well known

[Mike M.]

Re: soda blasting and 66 restortation

I would make sure the blaster you are going to use has done fiberglass. It depends on the blaster. If there willing to take there time and do it right. I had mine soda blasted and was very happy with it. The painter loved it also. He has sent other people there to get there cars striped. The blaster I used has been blasting fiberglass boats for years so they new what they were doing. Also I took him the exhaust panel and had him blast that first. Then took the panel to the painter to see what he thought. The painter said if they can do the whole car like the panel came out it would save him a lot of time. Mike

[G B.]

One of the Mysteries of Life

Why, after years of hearing horror stories, Corvette owners STILL hire people to blast their paint off with some magic powder or elixir.

I just don't get it.

[Gary Wilkerson]

Re: soda blasting and 66 restortation

I've stripped a couple of projects with chemical strippers. A friend of mine is working with a painter who wants to media blast (don't know what material).
What should a media blast process cost for a raodster?

Gary

[Mike M.]

I paid $850.00 cdn

Gary, They usually charge by the hour. I'm trying to remember the hourly charge and I think it was $90.00 per hour for soda blasting. I had more work done then just the body for the $850.00. They also blasted underneath, wheel wells ect. Seat frames and a few other bits and pieces. I would not even think of doing it with soda unless the car is completly apart. I just took the body to them on the dolly. Then when I got it back just washed it out with a hose. Mike

[Gary Wilkerson]

Re: I paid $850.00 cdn

Sounds like what my friend is doing. He's got the car completely disassembled. We're going to yank the body Thanksgiving weekend.

Thanks for the info!!

Gary

[Chris S.]

Re: soda blasting and 66 restortation

My quote was 1500.00 body, 2 doors, trunk lid, top lid, and underside of the body
I thought it was a little high.
I will prob "work" on him - see where we end up
They will be doing some test parts for me