Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hi Guys as the tittle suggests, i need to BORROW a sandblaster for a weekend only.

I need to clean up a bullbar (remove powdercoating), sliders (pretty bad surface rust) and a roll bar (painted and some surface rust) ready for mounting welds and repainting. Does anyone have one they could lend me or provide the required services for alcoholic repayment! or mates rates

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated THANKS

If you can't find one to borrow....

They are only about $20 for the compresser attachment (the actual sand blaster), $10 for ~4L of grit and super cheap have 2.5hp/40L compressers which arn't bad quality, and enough to do most jobs around the house for like $99 on special, they really don't cost much hey.

A mate of mine bought one and he used it to spray his car, so they can't be too bad. Another guy on this forum also did the same, so they are big enough, but just not big enough to go nuts with it running multiple lines and tools at once.

consider also other means of stripping the paint and rust off - chemical strippers/converters, mechaincal methods (wire wheel, random orbit sanders etc) and plain old elbow grease - wet and dry paper, your hand, a bucket of water. Sand blasting is good for getting small areas very clean but takes a long time to strip big things and can make a BIG mess - unless you have a full recirculating booth, you need to wear full hooded overalls + goggles + mask + taped up gloves (or end up with a lot of grit in your ears/eyes/nose/pubes) and if the day is even slightly warm you'll regret it fast.

chemical paint stripper works on powdercoat. my favourite method is paint stripper -> low pressure rinse -> high pressure water blast.

What sort of stripper, brand, stockist etc?? Will it also work on rust?

benhl wrote:What sort of stripper, brand, stockist etc?? Will it also work on rust?

the regular k-mart stuff should work.

rust needs different chemicals and they tend to convert it to a less reactive chemical rather than strip it off. coarse sandpaper or wire wheel works well for rust.