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> Body sand blasting or acid dipping
r_towle
post Nov 4 2014, 07:45 AM
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When prepping a car for sandblasting, what is the common thing to do with the aluminum tags in the front trunk and door pillar?

I suppose the second question would be do I acid dip the car or get it sandblasted?
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r_towle   Body sand blasting or acid dipping   Nov 4 2014, 07:45 AM
cn2800   I very carefully drilled out the rivets for those ...   Nov 4 2014, 07:59 AM
r_towle   I very carefully drilled out the rivets for those...   Nov 4 2014, 08:11 AM
partwerks   I very carefully drilled out the rivets for thos...   Nov 8 2014, 07:29 PM
mepstein   I wouldn't acid dip. You'll never be able ...   Nov 4 2014, 08:24 AM
r_towle   I wouldn't acid dip. You'll never be able...   Nov 4 2014, 08:33 AM
rudedude   Seeing the damage done to a 356 from dapo that I a...   Nov 4 2014, 08:32 AM
stevegm   :popcorn: I researched this pretty well a while ...   Nov 4 2014, 08:36 AM
altitude411   Plastic bead media blasting is the way to go in my...   Nov 4 2014, 08:40 AM
rgalla9146   When prepping a car for sandblasting, what is the...   Nov 4 2014, 03:19 PM
rick 918-S   http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...=2303...   Nov 4 2014, 04:10 PM
CptTripps   [url=http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showt...   Nov 7 2014, 09:01 AM
SixerJ   [url=http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?show...   Nov 8 2014, 03:25 AM
McMark   Quite possibly a stupid suggestion - why not cut ...   Nov 9 2014, 10:47 AM
balljoint   I get sand all over the dash every time I turn the...   Nov 4 2014, 04:29 PM
SixerJ   Maybe useful background info, but unfortunately do...   Nov 5 2014, 05:05 PM
r_towle   Interesting note, the initial dip is a BASE. The ...   Nov 5 2014, 05:37 PM
lsintampa   I acid dipped.... Then por-15 the entire car... ...   Nov 5 2014, 06:00 PM
Mikey914   I've used soda blasting to spot clean a few ar...   Nov 5 2014, 11:32 PM
SirAndy   Whatever you do, don't use sand to blast your ...   Nov 6 2014, 11:09 AM
lsintampa   Sand will get into everything, for sure. Ever go ...   Nov 6 2014, 11:32 AM
r_towle   My plan, either way, is to strip it to the tub and...   Nov 6 2014, 06:30 PM
Katmanken   And you can do the electrolysis process on a whole...   Nov 6 2014, 06:31 PM
Phoenix-MN   And you can do the electrolysis process on a whol...   Nov 7 2014, 07:26 AM
r_towle   I am starting to lean toward dipping the car, then...   Nov 6 2014, 06:35 PM
roblav1   I just went through this. Aircraft stripper - let...   Nov 7 2014, 12:59 AM
amfab   I just went through this. Aircraft stripper - le...   May 16 2017, 03:01 PM
boxsterfan   Take the floors out. There is rust in the seams. ...   Nov 7 2014, 04:33 PM
Jon H.   If you spray you high build primer on top of the e...   Nov 8 2014, 08:45 AM
veekry9   Redi-Strip. http://www.redi-strip.com/ https://w...   Nov 8 2014, 08:13 PM
veekry9   Come to think of it,I haven't come across anyo...   Nov 8 2014, 08:24 PM
Maltese Falcon   Had our current- build blasted with garnet sand. T...   Nov 8 2014, 09:57 PM
r_towle   So, a few years have passed. What does everyone th...   May 15 2017, 10:27 PM
bulitt   So, a few years have passed. What does everyone t...   May 16 2017, 06:58 AM
r_towle   Best/sad part of this is I was searching for any t...   May 15 2017, 10:35 PM
McMark   Blasting for me.   May 16 2017, 06:38 AM
6freak   Blasting for me. with ice! look into that...   May 16 2017, 02:20 PM
Perry Kiehl   If you have a really rusty shell, then dip it, but...   May 16 2017, 10:16 AM
rgalla9146   If you have a really rusty shell, then dip it, bu...   May 16 2017, 12:43 PM
jimkelly   the question i have about acid dip is that all pai...   May 16 2017, 06:24 PM
Tdskip   the question i have about acid dip is that all pa...   Mar 23 2021, 03:52 PM
bulitt   Rich: talk to Scotty. He has the dustless set up a...   May 17 2017, 07:40 AM
mepstein   Rich: talk to Scotty. He has the dustless set up ...   May 17 2017, 07:57 AM
r_towle   I am not doing this project, I will sub contract i...   May 17 2017, 08:07 AM
cary   On Doug's project we went with soda blasting, ...   May 17 2017, 08:20 AM
roblav1   My old car is the white one in the rotisserie. I...   Sep 2 2017, 06:21 PM
mepstein   I've been thinking about this. the 911 chassis...   Sep 2 2017, 07:44 PM
CptTripps   ::: digging up an old topic, so I don't have t...   Mar 23 2021, 09:37 AM
ClayPerrine   ::: digging up an old topic, so I don't have ...   Mar 23 2021, 09:47 AM
Root_Werks   :agree: If you want to dip, prepare the body for...   Mar 23 2021, 10:02 AM
mepstein   Plastic media blasting worked well for us when I w...   Mar 23 2021, 10:07 AM
worn   Plastic media blasting worked well for us when I ...   Mar 23 2021, 03:46 PM
Cairo94507   I would do media blasting and ask the blaster what...   Mar 23 2021, 04:22 PM
Tdskip   I would do media blasting and ask the blaster wha...   Mar 23 2021, 05:09 PM
ClayPerrine   I would do media blasting and ask the blaster wh...   Mar 23 2021, 08:25 PM
Luke M   This thread came up at the right time. I just met ...   Mar 24 2021, 05:04 AM
Cairo94507   I agree re the dry ice blasting, but I think that ...   Mar 24 2021, 07:30 AM
930cabman   I would not dip, there are too many hollow section...   Mar 24 2021, 07:46 AM
mate914   I used baking soda mixed with aluminum oxide on ni...   Mar 24 2021, 09:36 AM
PanelBilly   I used some plumbing plugs to seal off the heater ...   Mar 24 2021, 01:24 PM
914werke   Both media blasted (dry) and soda blasted (wet) a ...   Mar 24 2021, 05:01 PM
racerbvd   Back when you could reasonably get a tub acid dipp...   Mar 24 2021, 05:17 PM
GeorgeKopf   I'm going to acid dip my 1974 chassis. I foun...   Mar 24 2021, 06:10 PM
gandalf_025   This is what my car looked like when it came back ...   Mar 25 2021, 12:02 PM
930cabman   This is what my car looked like when it came back...   Mar 25 2021, 12:53 PM
d914   I did soda on my car.. worked well.. Just needs a ...   Mar 25 2021, 12:10 PM
gandalf_025   Car looks more like this now.. It was painted imme...   Mar 25 2021, 01:09 PM
mepstein   Car looks more like this now.. It was painted imm...   Mar 25 2021, 03:33 PM
gandalf_025   I wasn’t involved in the blasting process. The b...   Mar 25 2021, 04:02 PM


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