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Originally Posted by jimcarry
Hey
how’s it going sand and bead blasting usually leaves a gray dull finish if you are looking for a bright finish after blasting try soda blasting Soda blasting is a process where a surface is cleaned, rust is removed, or coatings (of any kind) are stripped from the substrate (the surface beneath the material you are trying to remove). The soda blasting machine propels a bicarbonate-of-soda-based media via water or compressed air onto the surface to be cleaned. This process gently removes the material without harming the substrate and can be done wet or dry. There are lots of sites on line to show you how to do this
but if you can sand blast this is the same thing
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I'm in no way trying to say it will not work, I have never used soda (or media for that matter) blast so help me understand this
This coating is some more bad stuff, yes I want a perfectly smooth polished surface, I can deal with some amount of hand buffing, but from sand, to bead, to buffer is still a lot of work. This coating you can hold it on a buffer with a coarse wire brush, all you will see is sparks, will not touch the coating, you can buff with whatever you want to, I tried just baking soda in the blaster but it would not touch it. Do you have a soda blaster ? What would you charge me to test 3 pieces to see if it worked, I don't mind spending money if I could find something that would remove the coating, other than sand and leave me a surface ready to buff (no harsh pits etc) The cast stainless beads were $145 for 25 pounds...... I thought they would work, the do, very very slowly, I just have not hit the correct media yet I think.
Thanks, Clint