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Sorry to hear about your setback. Its frustrating but just hang in there, awesome work Tony.
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Well heres the latest update following my rookie mistake when I forgot to add hardener to the primer....I had to call in a proffesional and lucky for me he does house calls..........Soda blasting, all I can say is the the stuff is awesome.
and the owner is a PORSCHE/VW enthusiast. Here are some pics and should be priming next week, since i am gonna spend about a week cleaning her up. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Thanks for sharing through your frustrations. What is uncured primer like? It seems like it kind of dried no? It's probably easier to take off that way.
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what a bummer man... I'll bet the neighbors were wondering what was that white cloud bubbling up and away from your yard and heading towards them...
I hope he did not use that quickrete on the ladder in his gun to get your job done faster...;-) Hang in there... water works well to clean up the soda on your property... as for your tub, probably use a vacuum & compressed air. Your first painting step will start with a solvent wipe down and the other prep steps I am sure you did. Good luck Bob
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Wolverine, what did the on-site soda blasting set you back? I'm only curious for those who may be headed down this path.... I own a 100lb soda blaster and have found that the soda is costly.....like $24/50lb bag. If I had to guess, I got about $2K in blasting equipment and have a pallet of soda (about $1400) waiting to finish up my tub...
Keep up the great work and keep posting the pics. Peace, Einar
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That stinks about the primer, but I'm amazed they have someone who will come to your house to blast it off the tub... how much longer until we have a traveling Pelican Parts store?
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I gotta believe that this is not legal in all 50 states...in fact in today's mindset of "green", I find it hard to believe that anyone does this at all. Doesn't look like fun cleaning that stuff up....
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You can always build a blasting booth in your garage!!
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cleanup took about 10 minutes with a hose and that was for the garage doors and the driveway.....(oh yea, I had coke in the other hand) and just imagine, this guy does entire houses.......remember its baking soda...Bio degradeable
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But remember, the soda is removing a not-so-friendly material, primer, which also was on the ground and in the air when he was done. That was also hosed off with the baking somewhere. That is what I refer to. My guess is that if you called your local EPA office and told them you were blasting primer off a car in the outdoors, they would've had more discussion. You cannot even sand WOOD on a boat anywhere near the shoreline in California without risk of citation. Don't get me wrong, I'm no tree-hugger, but I see all of the things that are frowned upon now....my guess is this is one of them.
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I like Soda - and looking forward to your progress.
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subscribed! thank for posting...do you have a picture of the color you are going with?
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More pics of this car THAT IS SEX!
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Love the Gulf livery!!!! Any updates since soda blasting?
I got my blasting finished yesterday and am now being told (by the local dupont dealer that I have to do special clean up to the bare metal to put a self etching Direct to metal primer on it....you having these issues too?? Peace, Einar
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I just finished using a 50/50 vinegar and water solution to spray the car with and then just rinsed it down with water.......i'll probably run a quick D/A sander over it..... then i'll be wiping the car down with laquer thinner and tack cloth..
upon hosing it down iin the sun, I never seen flash rust develope so fast in some aeras.....wow
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Here's what I'm going to be doing the next time I'm there: Metal Conditioning And Epoxy Priming 101
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