Sandblasting

oscar220, Oct 25, 8:06am
Anyone have an idea about how much it would cost to get a Morris minor sandblasted. Car is stripped of doors bonnet and boot and still a roller.
gunhand, Oct 25, 8:12am
Sand blasting panels will basically ruin it , other forms of media blasting won't.
Most if using sand blast around inside of doors , door shuts on body and floors etc, and a couple of inches into a flat panel, roof etc.
elect70, Oct 26, 2:37am
Dont ,it leave pits in panels , media (soda) blasting is better or get it dip stripped if doing full restoration .
lookoutas, Oct 26, 5:37am
Careful there gun - other forms of media blasting can also buckle a panel. It's just not as severe as sand.
When soda first hit the scene, some guys had a site at a swap meet. They had a bonnet half done as an example and they tried to tell a crusty old panelbeater with a well tuned touch, that it didn't buckle panels.

They didn't really appreciate the fact that I was trying to help them from getting in the shit. Even after I'd explained to them why panels buckle.
gunhand, Oct 26, 5:51am
True enough, it was a fairly short statement I made. Have had cars fully soda blasted without issue but I reckon the whole process is bloody near as time consuming as manual stripping. Most times we just got the hard areas sand/glass blasted and self stripped flat panels. But a good operator should assess it all and give good advice. I reckon that laser blasting looks pretty cool.
socram, Dec 15, 12:07am
Based on my Magnette, which is a bit bigger, it only took a total of 40 hours to turn it from a complete car to a bare shell. Dipped stripped all panels and they applied a protective coating. More than happy with the results - other than the bottom 30cm of the whole car behind the front bulkhead looked like an anaemic colander. It removed all the filler.

The fibreglass car I had plastic media blasted and that was very successful.